arXiv AI By Hoang-Loc La, Truong-Thanh Le, Amir Taherkordi, Phuong Hoai Ha

LLM Compression with Jointly Optimizing Architectural and Quantization choices

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arXiv:2606. 04063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying large language models (LLMs) is challenging due to their significant memory and computational requirements.

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