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Machine unlearning aims to remove specific knowledge (e.g., copyrighted or private data) from a trained model without full retraining. In practice, models are often quantized (e.g., 4-bit) for deployment, but we find that quantization can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Himanshu Mishra , Kanwal Mehreen

Discriminative learning effectively predicts true object class for image classification. However, it often results in false positives for outliers, posing critical concerns in applications like autonomous driving and video surveillance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Masoud Taghikhah , Nishant Kumar , Siniša Šegvić , Abouzar Eslami , Stefan Gumhold

Diffusion models can effectively generate high-quality images. However, as they scale, rising memory demands and higher latency pose substantial deployment challenges. In this work, we aim to accelerate diffusion models by quantizing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Muyang Li , Yujun Lin , Zhekai Zhang , Tianle Cai , Xiuyu Li , Junxian Guo , Enze Xie , Chenlin Meng , Jun-Yan Zhu , Song Han

Diffusion Models (DMs) utilize an iterative denoising process to transform random noise into synthetic data. Initally proposed with a UNet structure, DMs excel at producing images that are virtually indistinguishable with or without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuewei Yang , Jialiang Wang , Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Hongbo Zhang

Moire pattern frequently appears in photographs captured with mobile devices and digital cameras, potentially degrading image quality. Despite recent advancements in computer vision, image demoire'ing remains a challenging task due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 M Rakesh Reddy , Shubham Mandloi , Aman Kumar

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but come with significant computational costs, posing challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Recent post-training quantization (PTQ) methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dongyeun Lee , Jiwan Hur , Hyounguk Shon , Jae Young Lee , Junmo Kim

Quantum Image Processing (QIP) is a field that aims to utilize the benefits of quantum computing for manipulating and analyzing images. However, QIP faces two challenges: the limitation of qubits and the presence of noise in a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Yifan Zhou , Yan Shing Liang

Large language models require massive memory footprints, severely limiting deployment on consumer hardware. Quantization reduces memory through lower numerical precision, but extreme 2-bit quantization suffers from catastrophic performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Bingxin Xu , Zhen Dong , Oussama Elachqar , Yuzhang Shang

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant applications in the field of image generation. However, their high computational and memory costs pose challenges for deployment. Model quantization has emerged as a promising solution to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shizhuo Mao , Hongtao Zou , Qihu Xie , Song Chen , Yi Kang

With the rising popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), there has been an increasing interest in compression techniques that enable their efficient deployment. This study focuses on the Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) of LLMs. Drawing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-04 Kayhan Behdin , Ayan Acharya , Aman Gupta , Qingquan Song , Siyu Zhu , Sathiya Keerthi , Rahul Mazumder

Despite the widespread use of text-to-image diffusion models across various tasks, their computational and memory demands limit practical applications. To mitigate this issue, quantization of diffusion models has been explored. It reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Hyogon Ryu , NaHyeon Park , Hyunjung Shim

Large language models (LLMs) show impressive performance in solving complex language tasks. However, its large number of parameters presents significant challenges for the deployment. So, compressing LLMs to low bits can enable to deploy on…

We study two problems in high-dimensional robust statistics: \emph{robust mean estimation} and \emph{outlier detection}. In robust mean estimation the goal is to estimate the mean $\mu$ of a distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d$ given $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Yihe Dong , Samuel B. Hopkins , Jerry Li

Model reparameterization is a widely accepted technique for improving inference speed without compromising performance. However, current Post-training Quantization (PTQ) methods often lead to significant accuracy degradation when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Luoming Zhang , Yefei He , Wen Fei , Zhenyu Lou , Weijia Wu , YangWei Ying , Hong Zhou

The rapid deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights the need for efficient low-bit post-training quantization (PTQ), due to their high memory costs. A key challenge in weight quantization is the presence of outliers, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinlin Li , Osama Hanna , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Diffusion models have recently emerged as the dominant approach in visual generation tasks. However, the lengthy denoising chains and the computationally intensive noise estimation networks hinder their applicability in low-latency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Qian Zeng , Jie Song , Yuanyu Wan , Huiqiong Wang , Mingli Song

Diffusion models have recently dominated image synthesis tasks. However, the iterative denoising process is expensive in computations at inference time, making diffusion models less practical for low-latency and scalable real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yefei He , Luping Liu , Jing Liu , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou , Bohan Zhuang

As new optimizers gain traction and model quantization becomes standard for efficient deployment, a key question arises: how does the choice of optimizer affect model performance in the presence of quantization? Despite progress in both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Georgios Vlassis , Saleh Ashkboos , Alexandra Volkova , Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh

Video diffusion models (DMs) have enabled high-quality video synthesis. Yet, their substantial computational and memory demands pose serious challenges to real-world deployment, even on high-end GPUs. As a commonly adopted solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yushi Huang , Ruihao Gong , Jing Liu , Yifu Ding , Chengtao Lv , Haotong Qin , Jun Zhang