English
Related papers

Related papers: Post-Training Quantization for Audio Diffusion Tra…

200 papers

Post-training quantization (PTQ) has recently emerged as an effective tool for reducing the computational complexity and memory usage of a neural network by representing its weights and activations with lower precision. While this paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Logan Frank , Paul Ardis

Diffusion-based large language models (DLLMs) have shown promise for non-autoregressive text generation, but their deployment is constrained by large model sizes and heavy computational costs. Post-training quantization (PTQ), a widely used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Chen Xu , Dawei Yang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance on vision generation tasks. However, the high computational complexity hinders its wide application on edge devices. Quantization has emerged as a promising technique for inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Haotong Qin , Yuqi Li , Xiangqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu , Yingli Tian , Tingwen Huang

Model quantization reduces neural network parameter precision to achieve compression, but often compromises accuracy. Existing post-training quantization (PTQ) methods employ iterative parameter updates to preserve accuracy under high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zekang Zheng , Haokun Li , Yaofo Chen , Mingkui Tan , Qing Du

Diffusion models achieve high-quality image generation but face deployment challenges due to their high computational requirements. Although 8-bit outlier-aware post-training quantization (PTQ) matches full-precision performance, extending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Donghoon Kim , Dongyoung Lee , Ik Joon Chang , Sung-Ho Bae

Model quantization is a promising method for accelerating and compressing diffusion models. Nevertheless, since post-training quantization (PTQ) fails catastrophically at low-bit cases, quantization-aware training (QAT) is essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Xuewen Liu , Zhikai Li , Minhao Jiang , Mengjuan Chen , Jianquan Li , Qingyi Gu

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is an efficient model compression technique that quantizes a pretrained full-precision model using only a small calibration set of unlabeled samples without retraining. PTQ methods for convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jaehyeon Moon , Dohyung Kim , Junyong Cheon , Bumsub Ham

We propose DiffQ a differentiable method for model compression for quantizing model parameters without gradient approximations (e.g., Straight Through Estimator). We suggest adding independent pseudo quantization noise to model parameters…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Alexandre Défossez , Yossi Adi , Gabriel Synnaeve

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of quantization techniques for optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically focusing on Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) and Quantization-Aware Training (QAT). Through empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jahid Hasan

Video matting is crucial for applications such as film production and virtual reality, yet deploying its computationally intensive models on resource-constrained devices presents challenges. Quantization is a key technique for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tianrui Zhu , Houyuan Chen , Ruihao Gong , Michele Magno , Haotong Qin , Kai Zhang

Post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as a promising solution for reducing the storage and computational cost of vision transformers (ViTs). Recent advances primarily target at crafting quantizers to deal with peculiar activations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Runqing Jiang , Ye Zhang , Longguang Wang , Pengpeng Yu , Yulan Guo

We introduce Delta-Aware Quantization (DAQ), a data-free post-training quantization framework that preserves the knowledge acquired during post-training. Standard quantization objectives minimize reconstruction error but are agnostic to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xiaoming Yu , Shize Tang , Guanghua Yu , Linchuan Xie , Song Liu , Jianchen Zhu , Feng Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have gained significant attention, but their high computing cost limits the practical applications. While post-training quantization (PTQ) reduces model size and speeds up inference, it often degrades performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Lianwei Yang , Haisong Gong , Haokun Lin , Yichen Wu , Zhenan Sun , Qingyi Gu

Several post-training quantization methods have been applied to large language models (LLMs), and have been shown to perform well down to 8-bits. We find that these methods break down at lower bit precision, and investigate quantization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zechun Liu , Barlas Oguz , Changsheng Zhao , Ernie Chang , Pierre Stock , Yashar Mehdad , Yangyang Shi , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra

Quantization and cache mechanisms are typically applied individually for efficient Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), each demonstrating notable potential for acceleration. However, the promoting effect of combining the two mechanisms on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xin Ding , Xin Li , Haotong Qin , Zhibo Chen

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a widely used approach for reducing the memory and compute costs of large language models (LLMs). Recent studies have shown that applying invertible transformations to activations can significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ofir Gordon , Lior Dikstein , Arnon Netzer , Idan Achituve , Hai Victor Habi

Improving the efficiency of inference in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a critical area of research. Post-training Quantization (PTQ) is a popular technique, but it often faces challenges at low-bit levels, particularly in downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wenjin Ke , Zhe Li , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a widely used method to compress large language models (LLMs) without fine-tuning. It typically sets quantization hyperparameters (e.g., scaling factors) based on current-layer activations. Although this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zheqi Lv , Zhenxuan Fan , Qi Tian , Wenqiao Zhang , Yueting Zhuang

Diffusion models have received wide attention in generation tasks. However, the expensive computation cost prevents the application of diffusion models in resource-constrained scenarios. Quantization emerges as a practical solution that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weilun Feng , Haotong Qin , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fei Wang , Renshuai Tao , Yongjun Xu , Michele Magno

Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) has received significant attention because it requires only a small set of calibration data to quantize a full-precision model, which is more practical in real-world applications in which full access to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Cuong Pham , Hoang Anh Dung , Cuong C. Nguyen , Trung Le , Dinh Phung , Gustavo Carneiro , Thanh-Toan Do