Breaking the Blocks: Continuous Low-Rank Decomposed Scaling for Unified LLM Quantization and Adaptation

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Source paper: Breaking the Blocks: Continuous Low-Rank Decomposed Scaling for Unified LLM Quantization and Adaptation

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22716v1

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element-wise quantization can be made as efficient as block-wise scaling while providing strictly superior expressive power
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achieves up to a 27.0% accuracy improvement at 3 bits over NormalFloat quantization
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delivers a 1.5x inference speedup on NVIDIA RTX 4090
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enables high-rank weight updates within a low-rank budget while incurring no additional inference overhead
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enhancing PEFT performance by 9.6% on downstream tasks over 4bit QLoRA
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The method relies on continuous optimization which may not be feasible in certain hardware environments
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consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across various model families in both quantization and downstream fine-tuning tasks
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propose Low-Rank Decomposed Scaling (LoRDS), a unified framework that rethinks quantization granularity through this low-rank decomposition
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