When Local Variance Optimality Is Not Enough: RoPE-Aligned Q/K Rotations for Dynamic 4-Bit Quantisation
Rotation-based post-training quantisation commonly applies an orthogonal transform across an entire attention head to reduce outlier-induced error. RoPE instead partitions each head into two-dimensional frequency pairs, raising the question of whether a transform respecting this decomposition can improve on full-head m...