Research · Efficiency & systems
Language models can be trained for compression nearly 13 times faster
SQuAT: Spherical Lattice Vector Quantization-Aware Training
Loeschcke et al. decompose weight blocks into direction and magnitude and apply factored straight-through estimators, improving accuracy over joint-STE baselines and matching scalar INT-QAT below 2.5 bits per weight.
WikiText2: 14.76 perplexity (as reported)
University of Copenhagen, Qualcomm AI Research