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most citedPatch Similarity Aware Data-Free Quantization for Vision Transformers

52 citations · 75 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CV2026

Post-Training Pruning for Diffusion Transformers

Chengzhi Hu, Xuewen Liu, Jing Zhang +3

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated impressive performance in image generation but suffer from substantial computational overhead and resource consumption. Post-trainin…

cs.LG2026

OSAQ: Outlier Self-Absorption for Accurate Low-bit LLM Quantization

Zhikai Li, Zhen Dong, Xuewen Liu +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities. However, their massive parameter scale leads to significant resource consumption and latency during inferenc…

cs.CV2026

Arena as Offline Reward: Efficient Fine-Grained Preference Optimization for Diffusion Models

Zhikai Li, Yue Zhao, Edward Zhongwei Zhang +4

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) effectively promotes preference alignment of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models. To improve computational efficiency, direct pre…

cs.CL2026

Sparsity Induction for Accurate Post-Training Pruning of Large Language Models

Minhao Jiang, Zhikai Li, Xuewen Liu +3

Large language models have demonstrated capabilities in text generation, while their increasing parameter scales present challenges in computational and memory efficiency. Post-tra…

cs.CV2026

Efficient-SAM2: Accelerating SAM2 with Object-Aware Visual Encoding and Memory Retrieval

Jing Zhang, Zhikai Li, Xuewen Liu +1

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) shows excellent performance in video object segmentation tasks; however, the heavy computational burden hinders its application in real-time video p…

cs.CV2026

PTQ4ARVG: Post-Training Quantization for AutoRegressive Visual Generation Models

Xuewen Liu, Zhikai Li, Jing Zhang +2

AutoRegressive Visual Generation (ARVG) models retain an architecture compatible with language models, while achieving performance comparable to diffusion-based models. Quantizatio…

cs.CV2025

Rectified SpaAttn: Revisiting Attention Sparsity for Efficient Video Generation

Xuewen Liu, Zhikai Li, Jing Zhang +2

Diffusion Transformers dominate video generation, but the quadratic complexity of attention computation introduces substantial latency. Attention sparsity reduces computational cos…

cs.CV2025

CacheQuant: Comprehensively Accelerated Diffusion Models

Xuewen Liu, Zhikai Li, Qingyi Gu

Diffusion models have gradually gained prominence in the field of image synthesis, showcasing remarkable generative capabilities. Nevertheless, the slow inference and complex netwo…

cs.CV2025

SAQ-SAM: Semantically-Aligned Quantization for Segment Anything Model

Jing Zhang, Zhikai Li, Chengzhi Hu +2

Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable zero-shot segmentation capability; however, its prohibitive computational costs make edge deployment challenging. Although post-tra…

cs.LG2024

TTAQ: Towards Stable Post-training Quantization in Continuous Domain Adaptation

Junrui Xiao, Zhikai Li, Lianwei Yang +2

Post-training quantization (PTQ) reduces excessive hardware cost by quantizing full-precision models into lower bit representations on a tiny calibration set, without retraining. D…

cs.CV2024

Privacy-Preserving SAM Quantization for Efficient Edge Intelligence in Healthcare

Zhikai Li, Jing Zhang, Qingyi Gu

The disparity in healthcare personnel expertise and medical resources across different regions of the world is a pressing social issue. Artificial intelligence technology offers ne…

cs.CV2024

DilateQuant: Accurate and Efficient Diffusion Quantization via Weight Dilation

Xuewen Liu, Zhikai Li, Minhao Jiang +3

Model quantization is a promising method for accelerating and compressing diffusion models. Nevertheless, since post-training quantization (PTQ) fails catastrophically at low-bit c…

cs.AI2024

K-Sort Arena: Efficient and Reliable Benchmarking for Generative Models via K-wise Human Preferences

Zhikai Li, Xuewen Liu, Dongrong Joe Fu +4

The rapid advancement of visual generative models necessitates efficient and reliable evaluation methods. Arena platform, which gathers user votes on model comparisons, can rank mo…

cs.CV2024

MGRQ: Post-Training Quantization For Vision Transformer With Mixed Granularity Reconstruction

Lianwei Yang, Zhikai Li, Junrui Xiao +2

Post-training quantization (PTQ) efficiently compresses vision models, but unfortunately, it accompanies a certain degree of accuracy degradation. Reconstruction methods aim to enh…

cs.LG2024

RepQuant: Towards Accurate Post-Training Quantization of Large Transformer Models via Scale Reparameterization

Zhikai Li, Xuewen Liu, Jing Zhang +1

Large transformer models have demonstrated remarkable success. Post-training quantization (PTQ), which requires only a small dataset for calibration and avoids end-to-end retrainin…

cs.CL2024★ 13 cited

LLM Inference Unveiled: Survey and Roofline Model Insights

Zhihang Yuan, Yuzhang Shang, Yang Zhou +11

The field of efficient Large Language Model (LLM) inference is rapidly evolving, presenting a unique blend of opportunities and challenges. Although the field has expanded and is v…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

EDA-DM: Enhanced Distribution Alignment for Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Models

Xuewen Liu, Zhikai Li, Junrui Xiao +3

Diffusion models have achieved great success in image generation tasks. However, the lengthy denoising process and complex neural networks hinder their low-latency applications in…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

QFT: Quantized Full-parameter Tuning of LLMs with Affordable Resources

Zhikai Li, Xiaoxuan Liu, Banghua Zhu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable impacts across a wide spectrum of natural language processing tasks. Fine-tuning these pretrained models on downstream datase…

cs.CV2023

Patch-wise Mixed-Precision Quantization of Vision Transformer

Junrui Xiao, Zhikai Li, Lianwei Yang +1

As emerging hardware begins to support mixed bit-width arithmetic computation, mixed-precision quantization is widely used to reduce the complexity of neural networks. However, Vis…

cs.CV2023

BinaryViT: Towards Efficient and Accurate Binary Vision Transformers

Junrui Xiao, Zhikai Li, Lianwei Yang +1

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the fundamental architecture for most computer vision fields, but the considerable memory and computation costs hinders their application…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

RepQ-ViT: Scale Reparameterization for Post-Training Quantization of Vision Transformers

Zhikai Li, Junrui Xiao, Lianwei Yang +1

Post-training quantization (PTQ), which only requires a tiny dataset for calibration without end-to-end retraining, is a light and practical model compression technique. Recently,…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

PSAQ-ViT V2: Towards Accurate and General Data-Free Quantization for Vision Transformers

Zhikai Li, Mengjuan Chen, Junrui Xiao +1

Data-free quantization can potentially address data privacy and security concerns in model compression, and thus has been widely investigated. Recently, PSAQ-ViT designs a relative…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

I-ViT: Integer-only Quantization for Efficient Vision Transformer Inference

Zhikai Li, Qingyi Gu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various computer vision applications. However, these models have considerable storage and computational ove…

cs.CV2022★ 52 cited

Patch Similarity Aware Data-Free Quantization for Vision Transformers

Zhikai Li, Liping Ma, Mengjuan Chen +2

Vision transformers have recently gained great success on various computer vision tasks; nevertheless, their high model complexity makes it challenging to deploy on resource-constr…