Large language models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional general language processing capabilities, but their memory and compute costs hinder deployment. Ternarization has emerged as a promising compression technique, offering significant reductions in model size and inference complexity.
arXiv:2607. 07964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a widely adopted technique for compressing large language models (LLMs) without retraining.
By Donghyun Lee, Yuhang Li, Ruokai Yin, Priyadarshini Panda
arXiv:2606. 01412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization is widely used for compressing large neural networks, but aggressive low-bit quantization can significantly degrade model quality.
By Shihao Zhang, Rayan Saab
arXiv:2601. 16991v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting large pre-trained language models to downstream tasks often entails fine-tuning millions of parameters or deploying costly dense weight updates, which hinders their use in resource-constrained environments.
By Longteng Zhang, Sen Wu, Shuai Hou, Zhengyu Qing, Zhuo Zheng, Danning Ke, Qihong Lin, Qiang Wang, Shaohuai Shi, Xiaowen Chu
arXiv:2606. 07819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) deployment has become a critical concern in practical applications.
By Hoang-Loc La, Truong-Thanh Le, Amir Taherkordi, Phuong Hoai Ha
arXiv:2606. 05484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pipeline parallelism enables training of large language models that exceed single-device memory, yet inter-stage activation communication becomes the dominant bottleneck when trained on low-bandwidth networks.
By Paul Janson, Edouard Oyallon, Eugene Belilovsky