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GaugeQuant: Online Learning of Quantization-Optimal Bases from LLM Symmetries
首次提交 2026-07-23 06:14
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摘要
Transformers are known to have internal continuous symmetries that leave outputs invariant while altering how activations are distributed across coordinates, and hence how well they quantize. GaugeQuant leverages this in-training by introducing a LogSumExp term to the loss that breaks the symmetries, thus selecting a basis that minimizes activation outliers. A stop-gradient operator ensures that only rotation matrices are updated, yielding the language modeling objective completely unaltered. Our quantization strategy requires no specific calibration data, no quantization simulation, and adds a small inference overhead. As a proof of concept, we evaluate on WikiText-2 perplexity and zero-shot reasoning. On Qwen-2.5 0.5B, GaugeQuant reduces perplexity (e.g. $25.62 \to 16.76$ under W4A16) and improves zero-shot accuracy. On LLaMA-2 7B, perplexity improves but downstream accuracy does not. The code is available at: https://github.com/MPedraBento/gauge-quant.
作者备注：Accepted at the Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations Workshop (NeurReps), NeurIPS 2026
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GaugeQuant: Online Learning of Quantization-Optimal Bases from LLM Symmetries
Transformers are known to have internal continuous symmetries that leave outputs invariant while altering how activations are distributed across coordinates, and hence how well they quantize. GaugeQuant leverages this in-training by introducing a LogSumExp term to the loss that breaks the symmetries, thus selecting a basis that minimizes activation outliers. A stop-gradient operator ensures that only rotation matrices are updated, yielding the language modeling objective completely unaltered. Our quantization strategy requires no specific calibration data, no quantization simulation, and adds a small inference overhead. As a proof of concept, we evaluate on WikiText-2 perplexity and zero-shot reasoning. On Qwen-2.5 0.5B, GaugeQuant reduces perplexity (e.g. $25.62 \to 16.76$ under W4A16) and improves zero-shot accuracy. On LLaMA-2 7B, perplexity improves but downstream accuracy does not. The code is available at: https://github.com/MPedraBento/gauge-quant.
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