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UltraSketchLLM: Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Sketch and Hardware-Friendly Operators

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arXiv:2506. 17255v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) require larger GPU memory size these days, necessitating efficient and extreme weight compression methods.

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