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Ultra low-bit quantization brings substantial efficiency for Transformer-based models, but the accuracy degradation and limited GPU support hinder its wide usage. In this paper, we analyze zero-point distortion in binarization and propose a…

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Quantization is an effective approach to reduce the memory footprint and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), yet maintaining performance in the ultra-low-bit regime remains challenging. Existing post-training methods often…

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With the rapid growth in the use of fine-tuning for large language models (LLMs), optimizing fine-tuning while keeping inference efficient has become highly important. However, this is a challenging task as it requires improvements in all…

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Performing unsupervised domain adaptation on resource-constrained edge devices is challenging. Existing research typically adopts architecture optimization (e.g., designing slimmable networks) but requires expensive training costs.…

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Transformer models have revolutionized AI tasks, but their large size hinders real-world deployment on resource-constrained and latency-critical edge devices. While binarized Transformers offer a promising solution by significantly reducing…

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The rapid growth of microcontroller-based IoT devices has opened up numerous applications, from smart manufacturing to personalized healthcare. Despite the widespread adoption of energy-efficient microcontroller units (MCUs) in the Tiny…

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Large language models cache all previously computed key-value (KV) pairs during generation, and this KV cache grows linearly with sequence length, making it a primary memory bottleneck for serving. Quantizing the KV cache to fewer bits…

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Accelerating Human Action Recognition (HAR) efficiently for real-time surveillance and robotic systems on edge chips remains a challenging research field, given its high computational and memory requirements. This paper proposed an…

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The Tsetlin Machine (TM) offers high-speed inference on resource-constrained devices such as CPUs. Its logic-driven operations naturally lend themselves to parallel execution on modern CPU architectures. Motivated by this, we propose an…

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Quantization enables efficient acceleration of deep neural networks by reducing model memory footprint and exploiting low-cost integer math hardware units. Quantization maps floating-point weights and activations in a trained model to…

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Transformer-based neural models are used in many AI applications. Training these models is expensive, as it takes huge GPU resources and long duration. It is challenging because typical data like sentences have variable lengths, and…

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