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ARXIV:2603.28430 · LLM OPTIMIZATION · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:22 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28430LLM OPTIMIZATIONSUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:22 UTCFRESHNESS STALEZhongping Ji · arXiv
A novel quaternion-based rotation framework for compressing LLM KV caches, aiming for significant speedups and reduced memory footprint.
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Pain A novel quaternion-based rotation framework for compressing LLM KV caches, aiming for significant speedups and reduced memory footprint.
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A novel quaternion-based rotation framework for compressing LLM KV caches, aiming for significant speedups and reduced memory footprint. RotorQuant reduces this cost with blockwise $3$D Clifford rotors, yet the resulting $3$D partition is poorly…
Orthogonal feature decorrelation is effective for low-bit online vector quantization, but dense random orthogonal transforms incur prohibitive $O(d^2)$ storage and compute. RotorQuant reduces this cost with blockwise $3$D Clifford rotors, yet the resulting $3$D…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. Across $18$ fused CUDA settings with $d \in {128,256,512}$, bit widths ${2,3,4}$, and FP16/FP32 execution, IsoQuant achieves mean kernel-level speedups of about $4.5\times$--$4.7\times$ over…
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28430A novel quaternion-based rotation framework for compressing LLM KV caches, aiming for significant speedups and reduced memory footprint.
Abstract
Orthogonal feature decorrelation is effective for low-bit online vector quantization, but dense random orthogonal transforms incur prohibitive $O(d^2)$ storage and compute. RotorQuant reduces this cost with blockwise $3$D Clifford rotors, yet the resulting $3$D partition is poorly aligned with modern hardware and offers limited local mixing. We propose \textbf{IsoQuant}, a blockwise rotation framework based on quaternion algebra and the isoclinic decomposition of $SO(4)$. It represents each $4$D block as a quaternion and applies a closed-form transform $T(v)=q_L v \overline{q_R}$. This yields two main variants: \emph{IsoQuant-Full}, which realizes the full $SO(4)$ rotation, and \emph{IsoQuant-Fast}, which keeps only one isoclinic factor for lower cost; the framework also admits a lightweight $2$D special case. At $d=128$, IsoQuant-Full reduces forward rotation cost from about $2{,}408$ FMAs in RotorQuant to $1{,}024$, while IsoQuant-Fast further reduces it to $512$. Across $18$ fused CUDA settings with $d \in {128,256,512}$, bit widths ${2,3,4}$, and FP16/FP32 execution, IsoQuant achieves mean kernel-level speedups of about $4.5\times$--$4.7\times$ over RotorQuant while maintaining comparable reconstruction MSE, with peak speedups above $6\times$. Current validation is limited to the stage-1 quantize--dequantize path on synthetic normalized vectors; end-to-end KV-cache evaluation remains future work.
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A novel quaternion-based rotation framework for compressing LLM KV caches, aiming for significant speedups and reduced memory footprint. RotorQuant reduces this cost with blockwise $3$D Clifford rotors, yet the resulting $3$D partition is poorly aligned with modern hardware and...
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Orthogonal feature decorrelation is effective for low-bit online vector quantization, but dense random orthogonal transforms incur prohibitive $O(d^2)$ storage and compute. RotorQuant reduces this cost with blockwise $3$D Clifford rotors, yet the resulting $3$D partition is poor...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. Across $18$ fused CUDA settings with $d \in {128,256,512}$, bit widths ${2,3,4}$, and FP16/FP32 execution, IsoQuant achieves mean kernel-level speedups of about $4.5\times$--$4.7\times$ over RotorQuant wh...
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LLM Optimization moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 3.0/10.
At d=128, IsoQuant-Full reduces forward rotation cost from about 2,408 FMAs in RotorQuant to 1,024, while IsoQuant-Fast further reduces it to 512.
Explicit numeric comparison provided in the abstract with specific FMA counts.
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IsoQuant achieves mean kernel-level speedups of about 4.5×--4.7× over RotorQuant while maintaining comparable reconstruction MSE, with peak speedups above 6×.
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IsoQuant achieves mean kernel-level speedups of about 4.5×--4.7× over RotorQuant while maintaining comparable reconstruction MSE
Directly stated in the abstract that speedups are achieved 'while maintaining comparable reconstruction MSE'.
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A 4D partition therefore avoids the pathological tails induced by 3D chunking in almost every common setting. At d = 128, IsoQuant uses exactly 32 blocks with no remainder, whereas a 3D design requires 42 full blocks plus a leftover
Strongly supported by systems argument in analysis about alignment and avoiding pathological tails, with specific example at d=128.
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It represents each 4D block as a quaternion and applies a closed-form transform T(v)=q_L v \overline{q_R}.
Core method explicitly described in abstract and analysis with specific mathematical formulation.
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Current validation is limited to the stage-1 quantize--dequantize path on synthetic normalized vectors; end-to-end KV-cache evaluation remains future work.
Explicit limitation statement in the abstract about scope of current evaluation.
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Compared with RotorQuant's 3D Clifford blocks, IsoQuant avoids the expansion to an 8-component multivector representation, keeps the per-block state smaller
Implied in analysis comparing systems arguments, though not explicitly stating the 8-component count for RotorQuant.
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A core insight behind online vector quantization methods such as TurboQuant [1] is that decorrelating features before scalar quantization substantially improves rate–distortion behavior.
Presented as established insight from prior work (TurboQuant) that forms the foundation for IsoQuant's approach.
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