From the 1 of 8 linked papers with an AI index.
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DarwinLM: Evolutionary Structured Pruning of Large Language Models
Shengkun Tang, Oliver Sieberling, Eldar Kurtic +2
The paper introduces DarwinLM, an evolutionary search method for training-aware structured pruning of large language models that integrates lightweight post‑pruning training to fin…
"Give Me BF16 or Give Me Death"? Accuracy-Performance Trade-Offs in LLM Quantization
Eldar Kurtic, Alexandre Marques, Shubhra Pandit +2
Quantization is a powerful tool for accelerating large language model (LLM) inference, but the accuracy-performance trade-offs across different formats remain unclear. In this pape…
GSQ: Highly-Accurate Low-Precision Scalar Quantization for LLMs via Gumbel-Softmax Sampling
Alireza Dadgarnia, Soroush Tabesh, Mahdi Nikdan +4
Quantization has become a standard tool for efficient LLM deployment, especially for local inference, where models are now routinely served at 2-3 bits per parameter. The state of…
Statistically-Lossless Quantization of Large Language Models
Michael Helcig, Eldar Kurtic, Dan Alistarh
Model quantization has become essential for efficient large language model deployment, yet existing approaches present clear trade-offs: methods such as GPTQ and AWQ achieve practi…
Bridging the Gap Between Promise and Performance for Microscaling FP4 Quantization
Vage Egiazarian, Roberto L. Castro, Denis Kuznedelev +8
The recent hardware-accelerated microscaling 4-bit floating-point formats such as MXFP4 and NVFP4, supported on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, promise to revolutionize large language model (…
EvoPress: Accurate Dynamic Model Compression via Evolutionary Search
Oliver Sieberling, Denis Kuznedelev, Eldar Kurtic +1
The high computational costs of large language models (LLMs) have led to a flurry of research on LLM compression, via methods such as quantization, sparsification, or structured pr…