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Deploying quantized deep neural network (DNN) models with resource adaptation capabilities on ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) devices to provide high-quality AI services can leverage the benefits of compression and meet multi-scenario…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jianhang Xie , Chuntao Ding , Xiaqing Li , Shenyuan Ren , Yidong Li , Zhichao Lu

The ever-growing computational complexity of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates efficient deployment strategies. The current state-of-the-art approaches for Post-training Quantization (PTQ) often require calibration to achieve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Alireza Ghaffari , Sharareh Younesian , Vahid Partovi Nia , Boxing Chen , Masoud Asgharian

Quantization is an effective technique to reduce memory footprint, inference latency, and power consumption of deep learning models. However, existing quantization methods suffer from accuracy degradation compared to full-precision (FP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zheng Wang , Juncheng B Li , Shuhui Qu , Florian Metze , Emma Strubell

Neural network quantization is frequently used to optimize model size, latency and power consumption for on-device deployment of neural networks. In many cases, a target bit-width is set for an entire network, meaning every layer get…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Nilesh Prasad Pandey , Markus Nagel , Mart van Baalen , Yin Huang , Chirag Patel , Tijmen Blankevoort

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…

Post-training quantization (PTQ) reduces excessive hardware cost by quantizing full-precision models into lower bit representations on a tiny calibration set, without retraining. Despite the remarkable progress made through recent efforts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Junrui Xiao , Zhikai Li , Lianwei Yang , Yiduo Mei , Qingyi Gu

We study the problem of training and certifying adversarially robust quantized neural networks (QNNs). Quantization is a technique for making neural networks more efficient by running them using low-bit integer arithmetic and is therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mathias Lechner , Đorđe Žikelić , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Daniela Rus

Learning-based 3D reconstruction models, represented by Visual Geometry Grounded Transformers (VGGTs), have made remarkable progress with the use of large-scale transformers. Their prohibitive computational and memory costs severely hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Weilun Feng , Haotong Qin , Mingqiang Wu , Chuanguang Yang , Yuqi Li , Xiangqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Yulun Zhang , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in various domains, but they are constrained by massive computational and storage costs. Quantization, an effective technique for compressing models to fit resource-limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Han Liu , Haotian Gao , Xiaotong Zhang , Changya Li , Feng Zhang , Wei Wang , Fenglong Ma , Hong Yu

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

Post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as a promising technique to reduce the cost of large language models (LLMs). Specifically, PTQ can effectively mitigate memory consumption and reduce computational overhead in LLMs. To meet the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Shiyao Li , Xuefei Ning , Luning Wang , Tengxuan Liu , Xiangsheng Shi , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Model merging has emerged as a powerful technique for combining task-specific weights, achieving superior performance in multi-target domain adaptation. However, when applied to practical scenarios, such as quantized models, new challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Juncheol Shin , Minsang Seok , Seonggon Kim , Eunhyeok Park

Vector quantization (VQ) underpins modern generative and representation models by turning continuous latents into discrete tokens. Yet hard nearest-neighbor assignments are non-differentiable and are typically optimized with heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haochen You , Heng Zhang , Hongyang He , Yuqi Li , Baojing Liu

Post-training quantization offers an efficient pathway to deploy super-resolution models, yet existing methods treat weight and activation quantization independently, missing their critical interplay. Through controlled experiments on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Hongjun Wang , Jiyuan Chen , Xuan Song , Yinqiang Zheng

Zero-shot quantization (ZSQ) is promising for compressing and accelerating deep neural networks when the data for training full-precision models are inaccessible. In ZSQ, network quantization is performed using synthetic samples, thus, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Huantong Li , Xiangmiao Wu , Fanbing Lv , Daihai Liao , Thomas H. Li , Yonggang Zhang , Bo Han , Mingkui Tan

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

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), aims to segment the object referred by a given sentence in an image by understanding both visual and linguistic information. However, existing RIS methods tend to explore top-performance models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xiaoyan Jiang , Hang Yang , Kaiying Zhu , Xihe Qiu , Shibo Zhao , Sifan Zhou

Existing post-training quantization methods for large language models (LLMs) offer remarkable success. However, the increasingly marginal performance gains suggest that existing quantization strategies are insufficient to support the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiaqi Zhao , Miao Zhang , Deng Xiang , Ming Li , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

Post-training quantization (PTQ) efficiently compresses vision models, but unfortunately, it accompanies a certain degree of accuracy degradation. Reconstruction methods aim to enhance model performance by narrowing the gap between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Lianwei Yang , Zhikai Li , Junrui Xiao , Haisong Gong , Qingyi Gu

End-to-end neural network models achieve improved performance on various automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. However, these models perform poorly on edge hardware due to large memory and computation requirements. While quantizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Sehoon Kim , Amir Gholami , Zhewei Yao , Nicholas Lee , Patrick Wang , Aniruddha Nrusimha , Bohan Zhai , Tianren Gao , Michael W. Mahoney , Kurt Keutzer