3 papers
cs.LG2026
Beyond Activation Alignment:The Alignment-Diversity Tradeoff in Task-Aware LLM Quantization
Fei Wang, Chao Xue, Taoran Liu +3
Mixed-precision quantization (MPQ) has become a key technique for deploying large language models under stringent memory and compute constraints. We first identify a phenomenon tha…
cs.LG2026
Universally Empowering Zeroth-Order Optimization via Adaptive Layer-wise Sampling
Fei Wang, Li Shen, Liang Ding +3
Zeroth-Order optimization presents a promising memory-efficient paradigm for fine-tuning Large Language Models by relying solely on forward passes. However, its practical adoption…
cs.CV2025
Layer as Puzzle Pieces: Compressing Large Language Models through Layer Concatenation
Fei Wang, Li Shen, Liang Ding +3
Large Language Models excel at natural language processing tasks, but their massive size leads to high computational and storage demands. Recent works have sought to reduce their m…