arXiv:2610.00983v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) methods typically use sequential quantization that partitions a pre-trained LLM into a series of units (e.g., transf...
By Chao Li, Shigeng Wang, Anbang Yao
The paper investigates low‑bit quantization for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), showing that MXFP8 retains near‑lossless performance while 4‑bit formats like MXFP4 and HiF4 cause significant degradation. It identifies activation quantization as the main source of this loss and introduces Residual Fallback Quantization (RFQ), a lightweight framework that adds a quantized residual pathway to improve activation fidelity without architectural changes. Experiments on Wan2.2 and Qwen3‑VL demonstrate that RFQ recovers much of the performance gap to BF16 baselines across generation and reasoning tasks.
By Tanzila Rahman, Mehran Taghian Jazi, Yunke Peng, Zhuang Ma, Anandharaju Durai Raju, Yao Wang, Xing Huang, Hei Yi Mak, Shadan Golestan, Hoang Le, Yonghan Dong, Wei Guo, Yaoyuan Wang
arXiv:2606. 04620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have become the state-of-the-art algorithms for solving NLP tasks.
By Pasindu Wickramasinghe, Achyuta Muthuvelan, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Minghao Shao, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv:2606. 04349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) methods struggle with 4-bit Omni-modal Large Language Models (OLLMs) due to the extreme distribution heterogeneity and disparate outlier patterns across modalities.
By Yue Wu, Changyuan Wang, Zixuan Wang, Shilin Ma, Yansong Tang
arXiv:2608. 12239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Use this plain-text version for the arXiv abstract field: Learned image compression (LIC) models achieve strong rate-distortion performance but are hindered by high computational complexity and encoding-decoding mismatches across heterogeneous hardware platforms.
By Yuefeng Zhang
arXiv:2607. 17733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 4-bit quantization enables efficient LLM inference, but suffers from significant accuracy degradation due to outliers.
By Simla Burcu Harma, Danila Mishin, Zhengyuan Su, Ayan Chakraborty, Elizaveta Kostenok, Dongho Ha, Babak Falsafi, Martin Jaggi, Yunho Oh, Amir Yazdanbakhsh