2 papers
cs.CL2026
Quantization Error Is Spectrally Flat: A Single Random Probe Is a Calibrated, Data-Free Sensitivity Estimator, with Application to Budget-Targeted Mixed-Precision Quantization
I Kennedy, T Kennedy
A single random Gaussian probe gives an unbiased estimate of the squared Frobenius norm of a layer's quantization error. The estimator is well-behaved because round-to-nearest erro…
cs.CL2026
Fidelity Is Not Safety: Gently-Compressed LLMs Pass Every Data-Free Quality Guard Yet Invent Procedure Steps in Agentic Execution
I. Kennedy, T. Kennedy
Practitioners accept a compressed language model once it clears a stack of data-cheap quality guards: perplexity within a small factor of the original, downstream accuracy (for exa…