H-SVDQuant improves 4-bit quantization of diffusion transformers with low-rank branches

A unified framework jointly modeling weight and activation quantization error achieves better performance with rank 4 than existing methods with rank 32.

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Shiwen Wang · Pengxiang Zhao · Xiaoming Yuan

The University of Hong Kong · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

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The authors propose H-SVDQuant, a unified low-rank-assisted W4A4 post-training quantization (PTQ) method.

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From Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and The University of Hong Kong

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H-SVDQuant achieves rank-4 W4A4 quantization that surpasses rank-32 SVDQuant on diffusion transformers and LLMs.

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