This work proposes Residual Fallback Quantization (RFQ), a lightweight activation reconstruction framework that supplements the primary ulta-low-bit activation representation with an auxiliary quantized residual pathway that improves activation fidelity while preserving the efficiency advantages of ultra-low-bit comput...
C-PTQ is proposed, a unified channel-wise PTQ method that harmonizes task-specific loss perturbation and quantization error and achieves state-of-the-art performance without auxiliary modules like LoRA, thereby maintaining high efficiency.
Jia-Meng Li, Han Zhou, M. Blaschko· arXiv.org· 0 citations
Edge vision models are difficult to deploy on resource-constrained hardware, making low-bit post-training quantization (PTQ) attractive. In practice, standard FP32 training often produces heavy-tailed activation distributions whose outliers destabilize activation quantization: preserving the full range wastes quantizat...
Bharadwaj Kavuri, Sourav Babu-PK, Varadhraj Ellapan et al.· 0 citations
Vision-language pre-training (VLP) serves as a cornerstone for medical multimodal representation learning. However, existing medical VLP frameworks are often constrained by the limited context windows and shallow representational capacities of lightweight text encoders when processing lengthy, terminology-dense clinica...
The Channel-wise Token-balanced Output-Aware Clipping (CTOAC) method, which learns per-input-channel clipping bounds by minimizing a token-balanced reconstruction loss on the corresponding linear outputs, is proposed.
Reliable evaluation of vision-language models (VLMs) and medical vision-language models (Medical-VLMs) requires calibrated confidence, particularly under realistic clinical conditions. However, existing efforts mainly focused on improving accuracy, leaving calibration in the medical domain underexplored. To this end, w...