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This paper is devoted to the adaptation of generative large language models for the Tajik language, a low-resource language with Cyrillic script. To overcome the shortage of digital text resources, the author created and publicly released…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mullosharaf K. Arabov

Scaling model size significantly challenges the deployment and inference of Large Language Models (LLMs). Due to the redundancy in LLM weights, recent research has focused on pushing weight-only quantization to extremely low-bit (even down…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yifei Liu , Jicheng Wen , Yang Wang , Shengyu Ye , Li Lyna Zhang , Ting Cao , Cheng Li , Mao Yang

With the development of hardware for machine learning, newer models often come at the cost of both increased sizes and computational complexity. In effort to improve the efficiency for these models, we apply and investigate recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-03 Ching-Feng Yeh , Wei-Ning Hsu , Paden Tomasello , Abdelrahman Mohamed

As the size and context length of Large Language Models (LLMs) grow, weight-activation quantization has emerged as a crucial technique for efficient deployment of LLMs. Compared to weight-only quantization, weight-activation quantization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Minghui Zou , Ronghui Guo , Sai Zhang , Xiaowang Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

Masked image modeling (MIM) has demonstrated impressive results in self-supervised representation learning by recovering corrupted image patches. However, most existing studies operate on low-level image pixels, which hinders the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Qixiang Ye , Furu Wei

Low-bit post-training quantization (PTQ) is a practical route to deploy reasoning-capable LLMs under tight memory and latency budgets, yet it can markedly impair mathematical reasoning (drops up to 69.81% in our harder settings). We address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhen Li , Yupeng Su , Songmiao Wang , Runming Yang , Congkai Xie , Aofan Liu , Ming Li , Jiannong Cao , Yuan Xie , Ngai Wong , Hongxia Yang

One approach to reducing the massive costs of large language models (LLMs) is the use of quantized or sparse representations for training or deployment. While post-training compression methods are very popular, the question of obtaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Andrei Panferov , Jiale Chen , Soroush Tabesh , Roberto L. Castro , Mahdi Nikdan , Dan Alistarh

Deep learning model compression is an improving and important field for the edge deployment of deep learning models. Given the increasing size of the models and their corresponding power consumption, it is vital to decrease the model size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Madhumitha Sakthi , Niranjan Yadla , Raj Pawate

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is an effective technique for compressing large language models (LLMs). However, while uniform-precision quantization is computationally efficient, it often compromises model performance. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wei Huang , Haotong Qin , Yangdong Liu , Yawei Li , Qinshuo Liu , Xianglong Liu , Luca Benini , Michele Magno , Shiming Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi

One of the challenges of quantizing a large language model (LLM) is the presence of outliers. Outliers often make uniform quantization schemes less effective, particularly in extreme cases such as 4-bit quantization. We introduce KurTail, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mohammad Sadegh Akhondzadeh , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Martino Dazzi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used across many domains, but their scale makes deployment challenging. Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) reduces memory footprint without retraining by leveraging a small calibration set. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jaemin Kim , Sungkyun Kim , Junyeol Lee , Jiwon Seo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown an impressive capability in code generation. The LLM effectiveness generally increases with its size: The higher the number of LLM's trainable parameters the better its ability to implement code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Alessandro Giagnorio , Antonio Mastropaolo , Saima Afrin , Massimiliano Di Penta , Gabriele Bavota

Parameter quantization for Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attentions recently in reducing memory costs and improving computational efficiency. Early approaches have been widely adopted. However, the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Haoyu Wang , Bei Liu , Hang Shao , Bo Xiao , Ke Zeng , Guanglu Wan , Yanmin Qian

The upscaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has yielded impressive advances in natural language processing, yet it also poses significant deployment challenges. Weight quantization has emerged as a widely embraced solution to reduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Dayou Du , Yijia Zhang , Shijie Cao , Jiaqi Guo , Ting Cao , Xiaowen Chu , Ningyi Xu

This study explores the potential of fine-tuning foundational English Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating Polish text. The first step involves Language Adaptive Pre-training (LAPT) on a high-quality dataset of 3.11 GB, consisting of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Szymon Ruciński

Large Language Models (LLMs) deliver strong performance but are difficult to deploy under tight memory and compute constraints. Low-bit post-training quantization (PTQ) is a promising direction; however, it typically relies on calibration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xinzhe Zheng , Zhen-Qun Yang , Zishan Liu , Haoran Xie , S. Joe Qin , Arlene Chen , Fangzhen Lin

Scalar post-training quantizers discard pairwise coordinate structure within weight rows. We introduce QAM-W (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for Weights), a codec that recovers this structure: each row is L2-normalized, block-Hadamard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Preetam Sharma , Kacper Dobek

Estimating the global Lipschitz constant of neural networks is crucial for understanding and improving their robustness and generalization capabilities. However, precise calculations are NP-hard, and current semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Haoqi He , Yan Xiao , Wenzhi Xu , Ruoying Liu , Xiaokai Lin , Kai Wen

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities in various domains while the inference cost is expensive. Many previous studies exploit quantization methods to reduce LLM inference cost by reducing latency and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jinhao Li , Jiaming Xu , Shiyao Li , Shan Huang , Jun Liu , Yaoxiu Lian , Guohao Dai

Scalability and efficiency are desired in neural speech codecs, which supports a wide range of bitrates for applications on various devices. We propose a collaborative quantization (CQ) scheme to jointly learn the codebook of LPC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Kai Zhen , Mi Suk Lee , Jongmo Sung , Seungkwon Beack , Minje Kim