arXiv:2608.14149cs.AIcs.CR2026-08

提出新方法修复低比特量化中因数值不稳导致的补偿失效问题。

QuaSAR: Quantization Compensation via Stable Activation-Aware Rank Truncation

论文配图:QuaSAR: Quantization Compensation via Stable Activation-Aware Rank Truncation
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  • 用截断伪逆去除激活向量退化方向,提升求解稳定性。
  • ViT-B在W4A4下达81.42%准确率,优于已有后训练方法。
  • 适合追求高精度低模型体积部署的工程师使用。

近期无需训练的后训练量化方法通过闭式残差补偿恢复模型精度。为控制额外存储开销,现有方法基于拟合优度筛选层,仅保留补偿后残差拟合得分正的层,其余舍弃。本文发现,在低比特W4A4设置下,该筛选机制无法区分难以预测的量化误差与数值求解失败。秩不足的输入激活导致格拉姆矩阵严重病态或数值奇异,使闭式求解器不稳定,产生虚假负分。因此,原本可补偿的层被误判为不可补偿而丢弃。实际上,若使用数值稳定的求解器,这些层仍可显著恢复误差。为此,我们提出一种无参数的截断伪逆求解器,在求逆前移除坍缩方向。在ViT-B与W4A4设置下,该方法达到81.42%的top-1准确率,超越以往后训练方法及微调基线。结合低秩与量化压缩,最终实现54.7MB模型大小下80.26%准确率的可部署平衡点。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent training-free post-training quantization methods restore model accuracy through closed-form residual compensation. To constrain additional model storage overhead, several existing methods gate layer selection by goodness-of-fit, retaining only those layers whose compensation yields a positive residual fit score and discarding the rest. In this paper, we show that, under the low-bit W4A4 setting, this gating mechanism fails to distinguish poorly predictable quantization error from numerical solver failure. Rank-deficient input activations yield severely ill-conditioned or numerically singular Gram matrices, causing the closed-form solver to become unstable and produce spuriously negative fit scores. Consequently, existing goodness-of-fit gates misclassify affected layers as uncompensable and discard them. Many of these discarded layers can nevertheless provide substantial error recovery when their compensation is computed using a numerically stable solver. To address this problem, we propose a parameter-free truncated pseudoinverse solver which removes collapsed directions prior to inversion. On ViT-B with the W4A4 setting, our training-free method achieves 81.42\% top-1 accuracy, outperforming prior post-training methods and fine-tuning-based baselines. Combined with joint low-rank and quantization compression, the proposed method reaches a deployable operating point of 80.26\% accuracy at 54.7 MB, providing a well-balanced trade-off between model size and accuracy.

量化补偿低秩压缩数值稳定

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