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Post-training weight quantization is crucial for reducing the memory and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), yet pushing the average precision below 4 bits remains challenging due to highly non-uniform weight sensitivity and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xinlin Li , Timothy Chou , Josh Fromm , Zichang Liu , Yunjie Pan , Christina Fragouli

With the tremendous success of deep learning, there exists imminent need to deploy deep learning models onto edge devices. To tackle the limited computing and storage resources in edge devices, model compression techniques have been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sung-En Chang , Yanyu Li , Mengshu Sun , Weiwen Jiang , Runbin Shi , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang

The exponentially large discrete search space in mixed-precision quantization (MPQ) makes it hard to determine the optimal bit-width for each layer. Previous works usually resort to iterative search methods on the training set, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chen Tang , Kai Ouyang , Zhi Wang , Yifei Zhu , Yaowei Wang , Wen Ji , Wenwu Zhu

This paper examines the use of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) for two resource-constrained scientific applications: automated calibration of semi-conductor quantum bits (qubits) and scientific particle detectors. We evaluate the…

We introduce a quantization-aware training algorithm that guarantees avoiding numerical overflow when reducing the precision of accumulators during inference. We leverage weight normalization as a means of constraining parameters during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ian Colbert , Alessandro Pappalardo , Jakoba Petri-Koenig

Quantization has become a predominant approach for model compression, enabling deployment of large models trained on GPUs onto smaller form-factor devices for inference. Quantization-aware training (QAT) optimizes model parameters with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zheng Wang , Juncheng B Li , Shuhui Qu , Florian Metze , Emma Strubell

Efficient inference is critical for deploying deep learning models on edge AI devices. Low-bit quantization (e.g., 3- and 4-bit) with fixed-point arithmetic improves efficiency, while low-power memory technologies like analog nonvolatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Anmol Biswas , Raghav Singhal , Sivakumar Elangovan , Shreyas Sabnis , Udayan Ganguly

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are very popular in many fields including computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, to name a few. Though deep learning leads to groundbreaking performance in these domains, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Chaim Baskin , Natan Liss , Yoav Chai , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Eli Schwartz , Raja Giryes , Avi Mendelson , Alexander M. Bronstein

Although neural networks have made remarkable advancements in various applications, they require substantial computational and memory resources. Network quantization is a powerful technique to compress neural networks, allowing for more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Dawei Yang , Ning He , Xing Hu , Zhihang Yuan , Jiangyong Yu , Chen Xu , Zhe Jiang

Neural network quantization procedure is the necessary step for porting of neural networks to mobile devices. Quantization allows accelerating the inference, reducing memory consumption and model size. It can be performed without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Alexander Goncharenko , Andrey Denisov , Sergey Alyamkin , Evgeny Terentev

In the current quantum computing paradigm, significant focus is placed on the reduction or mitigation of quantum decoherence. When designing new quantum processing units, the general objective is to reduce the amount of noise qubits are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Viacheslav Kuzmin , Wilfrid Somogyi , Ekaterina Pankovets , Alexey Melnikov

Quantization can accelerate large language model (LLM) inference. Going beyond INT8 quantization, the research community is actively exploring even lower precision, such as INT4. Nonetheless, state-of-the-art INT4 quantization techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yujun Lin , Haotian Tang , Shang Yang , Zhekai Zhang , Guangxuan Xiao , Chuang Gan , Song Han

Large-scale language models (LLMs) excel in language processing tasks but face deployment challenges due to high memory and computational demands. While low-bit quantization, such as 4-bit techniques, offers a potential solution, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Dongyoung Lee , Seungkyu Choi , Ik Joon Chang

Quantization is a promising method that reduces memory usage and computational intensity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), but it often leads to significant output error that hinder model deployment. In this paper, we propose Bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Cheng Gong , Haoshuai Zheng , Mengting Hu , Zheng Lin , Deng-Ping Fan , Yuzhi Zhang , Tao Li

As neural networks gain widespread adoption in embedded devices, there is a need for model compression techniques to facilitate deployment in resource-constrained environments. Quantization is one of the go-to methods yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Karina Vasquez , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

We introduce an algorithm where the individual bits representing the weights of a neural network are learned. This method allows training weights with integer values on arbitrary bit-depths and naturally uncovers sparse networks, without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Cristian Ivan

To deploy deep neural networks on resource-limited devices, quantization has been widely explored. In this work, we study the extremely low-bit networks which have tremendous speed-up, memory saving with quantized activation and weights. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Yuhang Li , Xin Dong , Sai Qian Zhang , Haoli Bai , Yuanpeng Chen , Wei Wang

Reducing computational costs is an important issue for development of embedded systems. Binary-weight Neural Networks (BNNs), in which weights are binarized and activations are quantized, are employed to reduce computational costs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Tse-Wei Chen , Wei Tao , Dongyue Zhao , Kazuhiro Mima , Tadayuki Ito , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

Accelerating deep neural network (DNN) inference on resource-limited devices is one of the most important barriers to ensuring a wider and more inclusive adoption. To alleviate this, DNN binary quantization for faster convolution and memory…

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