Awesome-Quantization-Papers

This repo contains a comprehensive paper list of Model Quantization for efficient deep learning on AI conferences/journals/arXiv. As a highlight, we categorize the papers in terms of model structures and application scenarios, and label the quantization methods with keywords.

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[Update: Sep, 2024] Add new papers from ICML-24 and IJCAI-24.
[Update: Jul, 2024] Add new papers from CVPR-24.
[Update: May, 2024] Add new papers from ICLR-24.
[Update: Apr, 2024] Add new papers from AAAI-24.
[Update: Nov, 2023] Add new papers from NeurIPS-23.
[Update: Oct, 2023] Add new papers from ICCV-23.
[Update: Jul, 2023] Add new papers from AAAI-23 and ICML-23.
[Update: Jun, 2023] Add new arXiv papers uploaded in May 2023, especially the hot LLM quantization field.
[Update: Jun, 2023] Reborn this repo! New style, better experience!

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Overview

• Awesome-Quantization-Papers
  • Overview
  • Survey
  • Transformer-based Models
    • Vision Transformers
    • Language Transformers
  • Convolutional Neural Networks
    • Visual Generation
    • Image Classification
    • Other Tasks
      • Object Detection
      • Super Resolution
      • Point Cloud
  • References

Keywords: PTQ: post-training quantization | Non-uniform: non-uniform quantization | MP: mixed-precision quantization | Extreme: binary or ternary quantization

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Survey

• "A Survey of Quantization Methods for Efficient Neural Network Inference", Book Chapter: Low-Power Computer Vision, 2021. [paper]
• "Full Stack Optimization of Transformer Inference: a Survey", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "A White Paper on Neural Network Quantization", arXiv, 2021. [paper]
• "Binary Neural Networks: A Survey", PR, 2020. [Paper] [Extreme]

Transformer-based Models

Vision Transformers

• "ERQ: Error Reduction for Post-Training Quantization of Vision Transformers", ICML, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Outlier-aware Slicing for Post-Training Quantization in Vision Transformer", ICML, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "PTQ4SAM: Post-Training Quantization for Segment Anything", CVPR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Instance-Aware Group Quantization for Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Bi-ViT: Pushing the Limit of Vision Transformer Quantization", AAAI, 2024. [paper] [Extreme]
• "AQ-DETR: Low-Bit Quantized Detection Transformer with Auxiliary Queries", AAAI, 2024. [paper]
• "LRP-QViT: Mixed-Precision Vision Transformer Quantization via Layer-wise Relevance Propagation", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ] [MP]
• "MPTQ-ViT: Mixed-Precision Post-Training Quantization for Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ] [MP]
• "I-ViT: Integer-only Quantization for Efficient Vision Transformer Inference", ICCV, 2023. [paper] [code]
• "RepQ-ViT: Scale Reparameterization for Post-Training Quantization of Vision Transformers", ICCV, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "QD-BEV: Quantization-aware View-guided Distillation for Multi-view 3D Object Detection", ICCV, 2023. [paper]
• "BiViT: Extremely Compressed Binary Vision Transformers", ICCV, 2023. [paper] [Extreme]
• "Jumping through Local Minima: Quantization in the Loss Landscape of Vision Transformers", ICCV, 2023. [paper]
• "PackQViT: Faster Sub-8-bit Vision Transformers via Full and Packed Quantization on the Mobile", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper]
• "Oscillation-free Quantization for Low-bit Vision Transformers", ICML, 2023. [paper] [code]
• "PSAQ-ViT V2: Towards Accurate and General Data-Free Quantization for Vision Transformers", TNNLS, 2023. [paper]
• "Variation-aware Vision Transformer Quantization", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "NoisyQuant: Noisy Bias-Enhanced Post-Training Activation Quantization for Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Boost Vision Transformer with GPU-Friendly Sparsity and Quantization", CVPR, 2023. [paper]
• "Q-DETR: An Efficient Low-Bit Quantized Detection Transformer", CVPR, 2023. [paper]
• "Output Sensitivity-Aware DETR Quantization", 2023. [paper]
• "Q-HyViT: Post-Training Quantization for Hybrid Vision Transformer with Bridge Block Reconstruction", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Q-ViT: Accurate and Fully Quantized Low-bit Vision Transformer", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Patch Similarity Aware Data-Free Quantization for Vision Transformers", ECCV, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "PTQ4ViT: Post-Training Quantization for Vision Transformers with Twin Uniform Quantization", ECCV, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "FQ-ViT: Post-Training Quantization for Fully Quantized Vision Transformer", IJCAI, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "Q-ViT: Fully Differentiable Quantization for Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022. [paper]
• "Post-Training Quantization for Vision Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021. [paper] [PTQ]

[Back to Overview]

Language Transformers

• "Evaluating Quantized Large Language Models", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "SqueezeLLM: Dense-and-Sparse Quantization", ICML, 2024. [paper] [PTQ] [Non-uniform]
• "KIVI: A Tuning-Free Asymmetric 2bit Quantization for KV Cache", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "LQER: Low-Rank Quantization Error Reconstruction for LLMs", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "Extreme Compression of Large Language Models via Additive Quantization", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "BiE: Bi-Exponent Block Floating-Point for Large Language Models Quantization", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "BiLLM: Pushing the Limit of Post-Training Quantization for LLMs", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "Compressing Large Language Models by Joint Sparsification and Quantization", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "FrameQuant: Flexible Low-Bit Quantization for Transformers", ICML, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "OmniQuant: Omnidirectionally Calibrated Quantization for Large Language Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper]"
• "LoftQ: LoRA-Fine-Tuning-aware Quantization for Large Language Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper]
• "SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression", ICLR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "QA-LoRA: Quantization-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper]
• "QLLM: Accurate and Efficient Low-Bitwidth Quantization for Large Language Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "PB-LLM: Partially Binarized Large Language Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper] [Extreme]
• "AffineQuant: Affine Transformation Quantization for Large Language Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper]
• "Rethinking Channel Dimensions to Isolate Outliers for Low-bit Weight Quantization of Large Language Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper]
• "LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper]
• "OWQ: Outlier-Aware Weight Quantization for Efficient Fine-Tuning and Inference of Large Language Models", AAAI, 2024. [paper]
• "Norm Tweaking: High-Performance Low-Bit Quantization of Large Language Models", AAAI, 2024. [paper]
• "Agile-Quant: Activation-Guided Quantization for Faster Inference of LLMs on the Edge", AAAI, 2024. [paper]
• "Exploring Post-training Quantization in LLMs from Comprehensive Study to Low Rank Compensation", AAAI, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "What Makes Quantization for Large Language Model Hard? An Empirical Study from the Lens of Perturbation", AAAI, 2024. [paper]
• "EasyQuant: An Efficient Data-free Quantization Algorithm for LLMs", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "IntactKV: Improving Large Language Model Quantization by Keeping Pivot Tokens Intact", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "FlattenQuant: Breaking Through the Inference Compute-bound for Large Language Models with Per-tensor Quantization", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Quantization Strategies for Large Language Models", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "GPTVQ: The Blessing of Dimensionality for LLM Quantization", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "APTQ: Attention-aware Post-Training Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "EdgeQAT: Entropy and Distribution Guided Quantization-Aware Training for the Acceleration of Lightweight LLMs on the Edge", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "RepQuant: Towards Accurate Post-Training Quantization of Large Transformer Models via Scale Reparameterization", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "Accurate LoRA-Finetuning Quantization of LLMs via Information Retention", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "KVQuant: Towards 10 Million Context Length LLM Inference with KV Cache Quantization", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Extreme Compression of Large Language Models via Additive Quantization", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "ZeroQuant(4+2): Redefining LLMs Quantization with a New FP6-Centric Strategy for Diverse Generative Tasks", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "CBQ: Cross-Block Quantization for Large Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "FP8-BERT: Post-Training Quantization for Transformer", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Agile-Quant: Activation-Guided Quantization for Faster Inference of LLMs on the Edge", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "SmoothQuant+: Accurate and Efficient 4-bit Post-Training WeightQuantization for LLM", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "A Speed Odyssey for Deployable Quantization of LLMs", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "AFPQ: Asymmetric Floating Point Quantization for LLMs", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Enabling Fast 2-bit LLM on GPUs: Memory Alignment, Sparse Outlier, and Asynchronous Dequantization", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper] [code]
• "QuIP: 2-Bit Quantization of Large Language Models With Guarantees", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compressed Large Language Models via sub-4-bit Integer Quantization", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper]
• "QFT: Quantized Full-parameter Tuning of LLMs with Affordable Resources", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "QMoE: Practical Sub-1-Bit Compression of Trillion-Parameter Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Atom: Low-bit Quantization for Efficient and Accurate LLM Serving", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "ZeroQuant-HERO: Hardware-Enhanced Robust Optimized Post-Training Quantization Framework for W8A8 Transformers", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "LLM-FP4: 4-Bit Floating-Point Quantized Transformers", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "TEQ: Trainable Equivalent Transformation for Quantization of LLMs", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Efficient Post-training Quantization with FP8 Formats", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Probabilistic Weight Fixing: Large-scale training of neural network weight uncertainties for quantization", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Optimize Weight Rounding via Signed Gradient Descent for the Quantization of LLMs", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Norm Tweaking: High-performance Low-bit Quantization of Large Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Understanding the Impact of Post-Training Quantization on Large Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "QuantEase: Optimization-based Quantization for Language Models -- An Efficient and Intuitive Algorithm", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "FPTQ: Fine-grained Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "FineQuant: Unlocking Efficiency with Fine-Grained Weight-Only Quantization for LLMs", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Gradient-Based Post-Training Quantization: Challenging the Status Quo", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "NUPES : Non-Uniform Post-Training Quantization via Power Exponent Search", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [Non-uniform]
• "ZeroQuant-FP: A Leap Forward in LLMs Post-Training W4A8 Quantization Using Floating-Point Formats", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Self-Distilled Quantization: Achieving High Compression Rates in Transformer-Based Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Do Emergent Abilities Exist in Quantized Large Language Models: An Empirical Study", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "INT2.1: Towards Fine-Tunable Quantized Large Language Models with Error Correction through Low-Rank Adaptation", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "QIGen: Generating Efficient Kernels for Quantized Inference on Large Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [code]
• "OWQ: Lessons learned from activation outliers for weight quantization in large language models", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "PreQuant: A Task-agnostic Quantization Approach for Pre-trained Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression and Acceleration", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "LLM-QAT: Data-Free Quantization Aware Training for Large Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Outlier Suppression+: Accurate quantization of large language models by equivalent and optimal shifting and scaling", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "RPTQ: Reorder-based Post-training Quantization for Large Language Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws", ICML, 2023. [paper]
• "Quantized Distributed Training of Large Models with Convergence Guarantees", ICML, 2023. [paper]
• "Understanding Int4 Quantization for Language Models: Latency Speedup, Composability, and Failure Cases", ICML, 2023. [paper]
• "SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models", ICML, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "GPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained Transformers", ICLR, 2023. [papar] [code] [PTQ]
• "BiBERT: Accurate Fully Binarized BERT", ICLR, 2022. [paper] [code] [Extreme]
• "BiT: Robustly Binarized Multi-distilled Transformer", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [code] [Extreme]
• "Outlier Suppression: Pushing the Limit of Low-bit Transformer Language Models", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Towards Efficient Post-training Quantization of Pre-trained Language Models", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [PTQ]
• "ZeroQuant: Efficient and Affordable Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale Transformers", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "Compression of Generative Pre-trained Language Models via Quantization", ACL, 2022. [paper]
• "I-BERT: Integer-only BERT Quantization", ICML, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "BinaryBERT: Pushing the Limit of BERT Quantization", ACL, 2021. [paper] [code] [Extreme]
• "On the Distribution, Sparsity, and Inference-time Quantization of Attention Values in Transformers", ACL, 2021. [paper]
• "Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges of Efficient Transformer Quantization", EMNLP, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "KDLSQ-BERT: A Quantized Bert Combining Knowledge Distillation with Learned Step Size Quantization", arXiv, 2021. [paper]
• "TernaryBERT: Distillation-aware Ultra-low Bit BERT", EMNLP, 2020. [paper] [code] [Extreme]
• "Extremely Low Bit Transformer Quantization for On-Device Neural Machine Translation", EMNLP, 2020. [paper]
• "GOBO: Quantizing Attention-Based NLP Models for Low Latency and Energy Efficient Inference", MICRO, 2020. [paper]
• "Towards Fully 8-bit Integer Inference for the Transformer Model", IJCAI, 2020. [paper]
• "Q-BERT: Hessian Based Ultra Low Precision Quantization of BERT", AAAI, 2020. [paper]
• "Efficient 8-Bit Quantization of Transformer Neural Machine Language Translation Model", ICML, 2019. [paper]
• "Q8BERT: Quantized 8Bit BERT", EMC2 Workshop, 2019. [paper]

[Back to Overview]

Convolutional Neural Networks

Visual Generation

• "TFMQ-DM: Temporal Feature Maintenance Quantization for Diffusion Models", CVPR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Towards Accurate Post-training Quantization for Diffusion Models", CVPR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "EfficientDM: Efficient Quantization-Aware Fine-Tuning of Low-Bit Diffusion Models", ICLR, 2024. [paper]
• "QuEST: Low-bit Diffusion Model Quantization via Efficient Selective Finetuning", arXiv, 2024. [paper]
• "Enhanced Distribution Alignment for Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Efficient Quantization Strategies for Latent Diffusion Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Post-training Quantization with Progressive Calibration and Activation Relaxing for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Effective Quantization for Diffusion Models on CPUs", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "PTQD: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion Models", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Q-DM: An Efficient Low-bit Quantized Diffusion Model", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper]
• "Temporal Dynamic Quantization for Diffusion Models", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper]
• "Q-diffusion: Quantizing Diffusion Models", ICCV, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "Towards Accurate Data-free Quantization for Diffusion Models", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Post-training Quantization on Diffusion Models", CVPR, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]

Image Classification

• "Sharpness-Aware Data Generation for Zero-shot Quantization", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "A2Q+: Improving Accumulator-Aware Weight Quantization", ICML, 2024. [paper]
• "HyQ: Hardware-Friendly Post-Training Quantization for CNN-Transformer Hybrid Networks", IJCAI, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Retraining-Free Model Quantization via One-Shot Weight-Coupling Learning", CVPR, 2024. [paper] [MP]
• "Mixed-Precision Quantization for Federated Learning on Resource-Constrained Heterogeneous Devices", CVPR, 2024. [paper] [MP]
• "Enhancing Post-training Quantization Calibration through Contrastive Learning", CVPR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Data-Free Quantization via Pseudo-label Filtering", CVPR, 2024. [paper]
• "Make RepVGG Greater Again: A Quantization-Aware Approach", AAAI, 2024. [paper]
• "MetaMix: Meta-State Precision Searcher for Mixed-Precision Activation Quantization", AAAI, 2024. [paper] [MP]
• "Robustness-Guided Image Synthesis for Data-Free Quantization", AAAI, 2024. [paper]
• "PTMQ: Post-training Multi-Bit Quantization of Neural Networks", AAAI, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Trainable Fixed-Point Quantization for Deep Learning Acceleration on FPGAs", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "StableQ: Enhancing Data-Scarce Quantization with Text-to-Image Data", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "Understanding Neural Network Binarization with Forward and Backward Proximal Quantizers", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper] [Extreme]
• "TexQ: Zero-shot Network Quantization with Texture Feature Distribution Calibration", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper]
• "Overcoming Forgetting Catastrophe in Quantization-Aware Training", ICCV, 2023. [paper]
• "Causal-DFQ: Causality Guided Data-Free Network Quantization", ICCV, 2023. [paper] [code]
• "DenseShift: Towards Accurate and Efficient Low-Bit Power-of-Two Quantization", ICCV, 2023. [paper]
• "EQ-Net: Elastic Quantization Neural Networks", ICCV, 2023. [paper] [code]
• "A2Q: Accumulator-Aware Quantization with Guaranteed Overflow Avoidance", ICCV, 2023. [paper]
• "EMQ: Evolving Training-free Proxies for Automated Mixed Precision Quantization", ICCV, 2023. [paper] [MP]
• "Unified Data-Free Compression: Pruning and Quantization without Fine-Tuning", ICCV, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Few-bit Backward: Quantized Gradients of Activation Functions for Memory Footprint Reduction", ICML, 2023. [paper] [code]
• "FlexRound: Learnable Rounding based on Element-wise Division for Post-Training Quantization", ICML, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Data-Free Quantization via Mixed-Precision Compensation without Fine-Tuning", PR, 2023. [paper]
• "OMPQ: Orthogonal Mixed Precision Quantization", AAAI, 2023. [paper] [MP]
• "Rethinking Data-Free Quantization as a Zero-Sum Game", AAAI, 2023. [paper]
• "Quantized Feature Distillation for Network Quantization", AAAI, 2023. [paper]
• "Resilient Binary Neural Network", AAAI, 2023. [paper] [Extreme]
• "Fast and Accurate Binary Neural Networks Based on Depth-Width Reshaping", AAAI, 2023. [paper] [Extreme]
• "Efficient Quantization-aware Training with Adaptive Coreset Selection", arXiv, 2023. [paper]
• "One-Shot Model for Mixed-Precision Quantization", CVPR, 2023. [paper] [MP]
• "Adaptive Data-Free Quantization", CVPR, 2023. [paper]
• "Bit-shrinking: Limiting Instantaneous Sharpness for Improving Post-training Quantization", CVPR, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Solving Oscillation Problem in Post-Training Quantization Through a Theoretical Perspective", CVPR, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "GENIE: Show Me the Data for Quantization", CVPR, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "Bayesian asymmetric quantized neural networks", PR, 2023. [paper]
• "Distribution-sensitive Information Retention for Accurate Binary Neural Network", IJCV, 2023. [paper] [Extreme]
• "SDQ: Stochastic Differentiable Quantization with Mixed Precision", ICML, 2022. [paper] [MP]
• "Finding the Task-Optimal Low-Bit Sub-Distribution in Deep Neural Networks", ICML, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "GACT: Activation Compressed Training for Generic Network Architectures", ICML, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Overcoming Oscillations in Quantization-Aware Training", ICML, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Nonuniform-to-Uniform Quantization: Towards Accurate Quantization via Generalized Straight-Through Estimation", CVPR, 2022. [paper] [code] [Non-uniform]
• "Learnable Lookup Table for Neural Network Quantization", CVPR, 2022. [paper] [code] [Non-uniform]
• "Mr.BiQ: Post-Training Non-Uniform Quantization based on Minimizing the Reconstruction Error", CVPR, 2022. [paper] [PTQ] [Non-uniform]
• "Data-Free Network Compression via Parametric Non-uniform Mixed Precision Quantization", CVPR, 2022. [paper] [Non-uniform] [MP]
• "IntraQ: Learning Synthetic Images With Intra-Class Heterogeneity for Zero-Shot Network Quantization", CVPR, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Instance-Aware Dynamic Neural Network Quantization", CVPR, 2022. [paper]
• "Leveraging Inter-Layer Dependency for Post-Training Quantization", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Theoretically Better and Numerically Faster Distributed Optimization with Smoothness-Aware Quantization Techniques", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper]
• "Entropy-Driven Mixed-Precision Quantization for Deep Network Design", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [MP]
• "Redistribution of Weights and Activations for AdderNet Quantization", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper]
• "FP8 Quantization: The Power of the Exponent", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Optimal Brain Compression: A Framework for Accurate Post-Training Quantization and Pruning", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "ClimbQ: Class Imbalanced Quantization Enabling Robustness on Efficient Inferences", NeurIPS, 2022. [paper]
• "Non-Uniform Step Size Quantization for Accurate Post-Training Quantization", ECCV, 2022. [paper] [PTQ] [Non-uniform]
• "Towards Accurate Network Quantization with Equivalent Smooth Regularizer", ECCV, 2022. [paper]
• "BASQ: Branch-wise Activation-clipping Search Quantization for Sub-4-bit Neural Networks", ECCV, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "RDO-Q: Extremely Fine-Grained Channel-Wise Quantization via Rate-Distortion Optimization", ECCV, 2022. [paper]
• "Mixed-Precision Neural Network Quantization via Learned Layer-Wise Importance", ECCV, 2022. [paper] [Code] [code] [MP]
• "Symmetry Regularization and Saturating Nonlinearity for Robust Quantization", ECCV, 2022. [paper]
• "RAPQ: Rescuing Accuracy for Power-of-Two Low-bit Post-training Quantization", IJCAI, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "MultiQuant: Training Once for Multi-bit Quantization of Neural Networks", IJCAI, 2022. [paper]
• "F8Net: Fixed-Point 8-bit Only Multiplication for Network Quantization", ICLR, 2022. [paper]
• "8-bit Optimizers via Block-wise Quantization", ICLR, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Information Bottleneck: Exact Analysis of (Quantized) Neural Networks", ICLR, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "QDrop: Randomly Dropping Quantization for Extremely Low-bit Post-Training Quantization", ICLR, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "SQuant: On-the-Fly Data-Free Quantization via Diagonal Hessian Approximation", ICLR, 2022. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "FILM-QNN: Efficient FPGA Acceleration of Deep Neural Networks with Intra-Layer, Mixed-Precision Quantization", FPGA, 2022. [paper] [MP]
• "Accurate Post Training Quantization with Small Calibration Sets", ICML, 2021. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "How Do Adam and Training Strategies Help BNNs Optimization?", ICML, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "ActNN: Reducing Training Memory Footprint via 2-Bit Activation Compressed Training", ICML, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "HAWQ-V3: Dyadic Neural Network Quantization", ICML, 2021. [paper] [code] [MP]
• "Differentiable Dynamic Quantization with Mixed Precision and Adaptive Resolution", ICML, 2021. [paper] [MP]
• "Auto-NBA: Efficient and Effective Search Over the Joint Space of Networks, Bitwidths, and Accelerators", ICML, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "Qimera: Data-free Quantization with Synthetic Boundary Supporting Samples", NeurIPS, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "Post-Training Sparsity-Aware Quantization", NeurIPS, 2021. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "Diversifying Sample Generation for Accurate Data-Free Quantization", CVPR, 2021. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Permute, Quantize, and Fine-tune: Efficient Compression of Neural Networks.", CVPR, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "Learnable Companding Quantization for Accurate Low-bit Neural Networks", CVPR, 2021. [paper]
• "Zero-shot Adversarial Quantization", CVPR, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "Network Quantization with Element-wise Gradient Scaling", CVPR, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "High-Capacity Expert Binary Networks", ICLR, 2021. [paper] [code] [Extreme]
• "Multi-Prize Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Accurate Binary Neural Networks by Pruning A Randomly Weighted Network", ICLR, 2021. [paper] [code] [Extreme]
• "BRECQ: Pushing the Limit of Post-Training Quantization by Block Reconstruction", ICLR, 2021. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "Neural gradients are near-lognormal: improved quantized and sparse training", ICLR, 2021. [paper]
• "Training with Quantization Noise for Extreme Model Compression", ICLR, 2021. [paper]
• "BSQ: Exploring Bit-Level Sparsity for Mixed-Precision Neural Network Quantization", ICLR, 2021. [paper] [code] [MP]
• "Simple Augmentation Goes a Long Way: ADRL for DNN Quantization", ICLR, 2021. [paper]
• "Distribution Adaptive INT8 Quantization for Training CNNs", AAAI, 2021. [paper]
• "Stochastic Precision Ensemble: Self‐Knowledge Distillation for Quantized Deep Neural Networks", AAAI, 2021. [paper]
• "Optimizing Information Theory Based Bitwise Bottlenecks for Efficient Mixed-Precision Activation Quantization", AAAI, 2021. [paper] [MP]
• "OPQ: Compressing Deep Neural Networks with One-shot Pruning-Quantization", AAAI, 2021. [paper]
• "Scalable Verification of Quantized Neural Networks", AAAI, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "Uncertainty Quantification in CNN through the Bootstrap of Convex Neural Networks", AAAI, 2021. [paper]
• "FracBits: Mixed Precision Quantization via Fractional Bit-Widths", AAAI, 2021. [paper] [MP]
• "Post-training Quantization with Multiple Points: Mixed Precision without Mixed Precision", AAAI, 2021. [paper] [PTQ] [MP]
• "ZeroQ: A Novel Zero Shot Quantization Framework", CVPR, 2020. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "LSQ+: Improving Low-bit Quantization Through Learnable Offsets and Better Initialization", CVPR, 2020. [paper]
• "HAWQ-V2: Hessian Aware trace-Weighted Quantization of Neural Networks", NeurIPS, 2020. [paper] [MP]
• "Learned step size quantization", ICLR, 2020. [paper]
• "HAWQ: Hessian AWare Quantization of Neural Networks With Mixed-Precision", ICCV, 2019. [paper] [MP]
• "Data-Free Quantization Through Weight Equalization and Bias Correction", ICCV, 2019. [paper] [PTQ]
• "HAQ: Hardware-Aware Automated Quantization with Mixed Precision", CVPR, 2019. [paper] [code] [MP]
• "PACT: Parameterized Clipping Activation for Quantized Neural Networks", arXiv, 2018. [paper]
• "Quantization and Training of Neural Networks for Efficient Integer-Arithmetic-Only Inference", CVPR, 2018. [paper]

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Other Tasks

Object Detection

• "Reg-PTQ: Regression-specialized Post-training Quantization for Fully Quantized Object Detector", CVPR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Improving Post-Training Quantization on Object Detection with Task Loss-Guided Lp Metric", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [PTQ]
• "AQD: Towards Accurate Quantized Object Detection", CVPR, 2021. [paper]
• "BiDet: An Efficient Binarized Object Detector", CVPR, 2020. [paper] [code] [Extreme]
• "Fully Quantized Network for Object Detection", CVPR, 2019. [paper]

Super Resolution

• "QuantSR: Accurate Low-bit Quantization for Efficient Image Super-Resolution", NeurIPS, 2023. [paper]
• "Toward Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Image Super Resolution", CVPR, 2023. [paper] [code] [PTQ]
• "EBSR: Enhanced Binary Neural Network for Image Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [Extreme]
• "CADyQ: Content-Aware Dynamic Quantization for Image Super-Resolution ", ECCV, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Dynamic Dual Trainable Bounds for Ultra-low Precision Super-Resolution Networks", ECCV, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "DAQ: Channel-Wise Distribution-Aware Quantization for Deep Image Super-Resolution Networks", WACV, 2022. [paper] [code]
• "Fully Quantized Image Super-Resolution Networks", ACM MM, 2021. [paper] [code]
• "PAMS: Quantized Super-Resolution via Parameterized Max Scale", ECCV, 2020. [paper] [code]
• "Training Binary Neural Network without Batch Normalization for Image Super-Resolution", AAAI, 2021. [paper] [Extreme]

Point Cloud

• "LiDAR-PTQ: Post-Training Quantization for Point Cloud 3D Object Detection", ICLR, 2024. [paper] [PTQ]
• "Binarizing Sparse Convolutional Networks for Efficient Point Cloud Analysis", arXiv, 2023. [paper] [Extreme]
• "BiPointNet: Binary Neural Network for Point Clouds", ICLR, 2021. [paper] [code] [Extreme]

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References

• Online Resources:
  • MQBench (Benchmark)
  • Awesome Model Quantization (GitHub)
  • Awesome Transformer Attention (GitHub)