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Quantization is a key method for deploying deep neural networks on edge devices with limited memory and computation resources. Recent improvements in Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) methods were achieved by an additional local optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ofir Gordon , Elad Cohen , Hai Victor Habi , Arnon Netzer

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) are increasingly deployed in domains where both reliability and efficiency are critical. However, current models remain overconfident, producing highly certain but incorrect answers. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paul Jonas Kurz , Tobias Jan Wieczorek , Mohamed A. Abdelsalam , Rahaf Aljundi , Marcus Rohrbach

Learning robust and generalizable world models is crucial for enabling efficient and scalable robotic control in real-world environments. In this work, we introduce a novel framework for learning world models that accurately capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chenhao Li , Andreas Krause , Marco Hutter

Model quantization enables the deployment of deep neural networks under resource-constrained devices. Vector quantization aims at reducing the model size by indexing model weights with full-precision embeddings, i.e., codewords, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Dan Liu , Xi Chen , Chen Ma , Xue Liu

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…

Despite the outstanding performance of transformers in both language and vision tasks, the expanding computation and model size have increased the demand for efficient deployment. To address the heavy computation and parameter drawbacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xijie Huang , Zhiqiang Shen , Pingcheng Dong , Kwang-Ting Cheng

In this work we study how explicit world-modeling objectives affect the internal representations and downstream capability of Transformers across different training stages. We use a controlled 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube and ask: (1) how does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Prakhar Gupta , Henry Conklin , Sarah-Jane Leslie , Andrew Lee

Inference for state-of-the-art deep neural networks is computationally expensive, making them difficult to deploy on constrained hardware environments. An efficient way to reduce this complexity is to quantize the weight parameters and/or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

Strong reasoning capabilities can now be achieved by large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without any supervised fine-tuning. Although post-training quantization (PTQ) and quantization-aware training (QAT) are well studied in the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Medha Kumar , Zifei Xu , Xin Wang , Tristan Webb

Large language models (LLMs) are omnipresent, however their practical deployment is challenging due to their ever increasing computational and memory demands. Quantization is one of the most effective ways to make them more compute and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yelysei Bondarenko , Riccardo Del Chiaro , Markus Nagel

Post-training Quantization (PTQ) technique has been extensively adopted for large language models (LLMs) compression owing to its efficiency and low resource requirement. However, current research lacks a in-depth analysis of the superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jiaqi Zhao , Ming Wang , Miao Zhang , Yuzhang Shang , Xuebo Liu , Yaowei Wang , Min Zhang , Liqiang Nie

Neural network quantization methods often involve simulating the quantization process during training, making the trained model highly dependent on the target bit-width and precise way quantization is performed. Robust quantization offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Moran Shkolnik , Brian Chmiel , Ron Banner , Gil Shomron , Yury Nahshan , Alex Bronstein , Uri Weiser

A world model is an internal model that simulates how the world evolves. Given past observations and actions, it predicts the future physical state of both the embodied agent and its environment. Accurate world models are essential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zaishuo Xia , Yukuan Lu , Xinyi Li , Yifan Xu , Yubei Chen

This paper introduces a post-training quantization~(PTQ) method achieving highly efficient Convolutional Neural Network~ (CNN) quantization with high performance. Previous PTQ methods usually reduce compression error via performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Chen Lin , Zheyang Li , Bo Peng , Haoji Hu , Wenming Tan , Ye Ren , Shiliang Pu

Quantizing a floating-point neural network to its fixed-point representation is crucial for Learned Image Compression (LIC) because it improves decoding consistency for interoperability and reduces space-time complexity for implementation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Junqi Shi , Ming Lu , Zhan Ma

With the rapid increase in the size of neural networks, model compression has become an important area of research. Quantization is an effective technique at decreasing the model size, memory access, and compute load of large models.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 David Qiu , David Rim , Shaojin Ding , Oleg Rybakov , Yanzhang He

Model quantization is a promising approach to compress deep neural networks and accelerate inference, making it possible to be deployed on mobile and edge devices. To retain the high performance of full-precision models, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Large language models have achieved significant advancements in complex mathematical reasoning benchmarks, such as MATH. However, their substantial computational requirements present challenges for practical deployment. Model quantization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhen Li , Yupeng Su , Runming Yang , Congkai Xie , Zheng Wang , Zhongwei Xie , Ngai Wong , Hongxia Yang

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing but pose significant challenges for real-world deployment. These models necessitate considerable computing resources, which can be costly and frequently unavailable.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Xiliang Zhu , Elena Khasanova , Cheng Chen

Efficiently serving neural network models with low latency is becoming more challenging due to increasing model complexity and parameter count. Model quantization offers a solution which simultaneously reduces memory footprint and compute…