arXiv Machine Learning By Yung-Chin Chen, Chung Peng Lee, Ze-Wei Liou, Naveen Verma

Massive Spikes in LLMs are Bias Vectors: Mechanistic Uncovering and Spike-Free Quantization

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arXiv:2606. 02288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Massive activation spikes in Large Language Models (LLMs) severely degrade quantization by stretching dynamic ranges.

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