ReSpinQuant: Efficient Layer-Wise LLM Quantization via Subspace Residual Rotation Approximation

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• ReSpinQuant is an efficient layer-wise LLM quantization framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance by reconciling high expressivity with minimal inference overhead through offline activation rotation fusion. Global rotation methods achieve inference efficiency by fusing activation rotations into attention and FFN blocks, but suffer from limited expressivity as they are constrained to use a single learnable rotation matrix across all layers.problem 35%
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  ReSpinQuant is an efficient layer-wise LLM quantization framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance by reconciling high expressivity with minimal inference overhead through offline activation rotation fusion. Global rotation methods achieve inference efficiency by fusing activation rotations into attention and FFN blocks, but suffer from limited expressivity as they are constrained to use a single learnable rotation matrix across all layers.

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• Rotation-based Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) has emerged as a promising solution for mitigating activation outliers in the quantization of Large Language Models (LLMs). Global rotation methods achieve inference efficiency by fusing activation rotations into attention and FFN blocks, but suffer from limited expressivity as they are constrained to use a single learnable rotation matrix across all layers.method 35%
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  Rotation-based Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) has emerged as a promising solution for mitigating activation outliers in the quantization of Large Language Models (LLMs). Global rotation methods achieve inference efficiency by fusing activation rotations into attention and FFN blocks, but suffer from limited expressivity as they are constrained to use a single learnable rotation matrix across all layers.

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• ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Global rotation methods achieve inference efficiency by fusing activation rotations into attention and FFN blocks, but suffer from limited expressivity as they are constrained to use a single learnable rotation matrix across all layers. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.result 35%
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  ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Global rotation methods achieve inference efficiency by fusing activation rotations into attention and FFN blocks, but suffer from limited expressivity as they are constrained to use a single learnable rotation matrix across all layers. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.

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• LLM Quantization moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.why now 35%
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  LLM Quantization moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.

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ReSpinQuant is an efficient layer-wise LLM quantization framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance by reconciling high expressivity with minimal inference overhead through offline activation rotation fusion.