LASER通过损失感知的低秩分解,显著提升视觉语言模型在低精度下的推理效率。
LASER: Loss-Aware Singular-value Decomposition and Rank Allocation for Efficient Low-Precision Vision-Language Models

- 基于损失曲率设计加权奇异值分解,优化下游任务性能而非仅重构精度。
- 提出跨层损失感知的秩分配策略,实现参数预算的高效分配。
- 首次将低秩压缩扩展至前馈网络,结合量化提升压缩效果。
视觉语言模型(VLMs)具备强大的多模态推理能力,但其高计算成本和大量参数使其难以在资源受限设备上部署。低秩分解成为有前景的压缩技术,但现有方法通常仅优化局部矩阵重构误差,依赖均匀或启发式秩分配,且主要关注注意力投影层,忽视前馈网络(FFN)的压缩。本文提出LASER(Loss-Aware Singular-value Decomposition and Rank allocation),一种面向高效低精度视觉语言模型推理的低秩压缩框架。LASER从模型损失的二阶近似推导出曲率加权的奇异值分解目标,并利用克罗内克分解的费雪信息引导分解以提升下游性能而非仅重构精度。进一步引入基于校准梯度的损失感知跨层秩分配策略,实现各层间更有效的参数预算分配。最后,通过结合奇异值分解与量化,将低秩压缩扩展至FFN层。实验结果表明,LASER在低精度推理下相比先前工作实现超过2.3倍的解码速度提升,同时保持强准确性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but their large computational cost and high parameter counts make deployment challenging on resource-constrained devices. Low-rank decomposition has emerged as a promising compression technique, yet existing methods often optimize local matrix reconstruction error, rely on uniform or heuristic rank allocation, and focus mainly on attention projections while leaving feed-forward networks underexplored. In this paper, we propose~\textit{LASER} (\textbf{L}oss-\textbf{A}ware \textbf{S}ingular-value d\textbf{E}composition and \textbf{R}ank allocation), a low-rank compression framework for efficient low-precision VLM inference. LASER derives a curvature-weighted SVD objective from a second-order approximation of the model loss and uses Kronecker-factored Fisher information to guide decomposition toward downstream performance rather than reconstruction alone. We further introduce a loss-aware cross-layer rank allocation strategy based on calibration gradients, enabling more effective parameter budgeting across layers. Finally, we extend low-rank compression to FFN layers through a hybrid scheme that combines SVD with quantization. The evaluation results show that LASER achieves more than $2.3\times$ decoding speedup over previous work while preserving strong accuracy under low-precision inference.
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