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Post-training quantization (PTQ) for vision transformers (ViTs) has garnered significant attention due to its efficiency in compressing models. However, existing methods typically overlook the relationship between a well-trained NN and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Peng Xia , Junbiao Pang , Tianyang Cai

Large transformer models have demonstrated remarkable success. Post-training quantization (PTQ), which requires only a small dataset for calibration and avoids end-to-end retraining, is a promising solution for compressing these large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhikai Li , Xuewen Liu , Jing Zhang , Qingyi Gu

Quantization has become a crucial step for the efficient deployment of deep neural networks, where floating point operations are converted to simpler fixed point operations. In its most naive form, it simply consists in a combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis through iterative noise estimation using deep neural networks. However, the slow inference, high memory consumption, and computation intensity of the noise estimation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xiuyu Li , Yijiang Liu , Long Lian , Huanrui Yang , Zhen Dong , Daniel Kang , Shanghang Zhang , Kurt Keutzer

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have gained prominence in various visual and multimodal tasks, yet the deployment of VLMs on downstream application platforms remains challenging due to their prohibitive requirements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Huixin Sun , Runqi Wang , Yanjing Li , Xianbin Cao , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Baochang Zhang

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for high-quality image generation given textual prompts. Their success has driven the rapid development of production-grade diffusion models that consistently increase in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Vage Egiazarian , Denis Kuznedelev , Anton Voronov , Ruslan Svirschevski , Michael Goin , Daniil Pavlov , Dan Alistarh , Dmitry Baranchuk

High-resolution imagery is essential for accurate 3D reconstruction, as many geometric details only emerge at fine spatial scales. Recent feed-forward approaches, such as the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT), have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tianrun Chen , Yuanqi Hu , Yidong Han , Hanjie Xu , Deyi Ji , Qi Zhu , Chunan Yu , Xin Zhang , Cheng Chen , Chaotao Ding , Ying Zang , Xuanfu Li , Jin Ma , Lanyun Zhu

The impact of quantization on the overall performance of deep learning models is a well-studied problem. However, understanding and mitigating its effects on a more fine-grained level is still lacking, especially for harder tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Huanrui Yang , Yafeng Huang , Zhen Dong , Denis A Gudovskiy , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata , Yuan Du , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

Diffusion Models (DM) have revolutionized the text-to-image visual generation process. However, the large computational cost and model footprint of DMs hinders practical deployment, especially on edge devices. Post-training quantization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Ruichen Chen , Keith G. Mills , Di Niu

Federated fine-tuning provides a practical route to adapt large language models (LLMs) on edge devices without centralizing private data, yet in mobile deployments the training wall-clock is often bottlenecked by straggler-limited uplink…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Changyu Li , Shuanghong Huang , Jiashen Liu , Ming Lei , Jidu Xing , Kaishun Wu , Lu Wang , Fei Luo

This work introduces NeuroQuant, a novel post-training quantization (PTQ) approach tailored to non-generalized Implicit Neural Representations for variable-rate Video Coding (INR-VC). Unlike existing methods that require extensive weight…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Junqi Shi , Zhujia Chen , Hanfei Li , Qi Zhao , Ming Lu , Tong Chen , Zhan Ma

Quantization is a widely used compression technique for reducing the memory and computation costs of large pre-trained models. A key challenge in per-channel post-training quantization (PTQ) is selecting appropriate scaling factors to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shihao Zhang , Rayan Saab

Recent advancements in diffusion models, particularly the architectural transformation from UNet-based models to Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), significantly improve the quality and scalability of image and video generation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lei Chen , Yuan Meng , Chen Tang , Xinzhu Ma , Jingyan Jiang , Xin Wang , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

How can we accurately quantize a pre-trained Vision Transformer model? Quantization algorithms compress Vision Transformers (ViTs) into low-bit formats, reducing memory and computation demands with minimal accuracy degradation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Minjun Kim , Jaeri Lee , Jongjin Kim , Jeongin Yun , Yongmo Kwon , U Kang

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

Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have superseded convolutional neural networks in numerous applications, including classification, detection, and segmentation. However, the high computational requirements of ViTs hinder their widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jemin Lee , Yongin Kwon , Sihyeong Park , Misun Yu , Jeman Park , Hwanjun Song

Quantization enables efficient acceleration of deep neural networks by reducing model memory footprint and exploiting low-cost integer math hardware units. Quantization maps floating-point weights and activations in a trained model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Steve Dai , Rangharajan Venkatesan , Haoxing Ren , Brian Zimmer , William J. Dally , Brucek Khailany

The image tokenizer is a critical component in AR image generation, as it determines how rich and structured visual content is encoded into compact representations. Existing quantization-based tokenizers such as VQ-GAN primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yiang Shi , Xiaoyang Guo , Wei Yin , Mingkai Jia , Qian Zhang , Xiaolin Hu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

For large language models (LLMs), post-training quantization (PTQ) can significantly reduce memory footprint and computational overhead. Model quantization is rapidly evolving. Though many papers report breakthrough results, they are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yutong Liu , Cairong Zhao , Guosheng Hu

Quantization is a powerful tool to improve large language model (LLM) inference efficiency by utilizing more energy-efficient low-precision datapaths and reducing memory footprint. However, accurately quantizing LLM weights and activations…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Coleman Hooper , Charbel Sakr , Ben Keller , Rangharajan Venkatesan , Kurt Keutzer , Sophia Shao , Brucek Khailany