5 accepted papers
Text-to-image diffusion models remain computationally intensive: generating a single image typically requires dozens of passes through large transformer backbones (*e.g.*, SDXL uses ~50 evaluations of a 2.6B-parameter model). Few-step variants reduce the step count to 2–8, but still rely on large, f…
State Space Models (SSMs) are gaining attention as an efficient alternative to Transformers due to their constant memory complexity and comparable performance. Yet, deploying large-scale SSMs on cloud-based services or resource-constrained devices faces challenges. To address this, quantizing SSMs u…
State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as an appealing alternative to Transformers for large language models, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy with constant memory complexity which allows for holding longer context lengths than attention-based networks. The superior computational efficiency of SS…
Quantization scale and bit-width are the most important parameters when considering how to quantize a neural network. Prior work focuses on optimizing quantization scales in a global manner through gradient methods (gradient descent & Hessian analysis). Yet, when applying perturbations to quantizati…
Transfer learning on edge is challenging due to on-device limited resources. Existing work addresses this issue by training a subset of parameters or adding model patches. Developed with inference in mind, Inverted Residual Blocks (IRBs) split a convolutional layer into depthwise and pointwise convo…