BaKron: Efficient Quantization with Kronecker-Factored Hessians
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arXiv:2608.06291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We accelerate a family of algorithms for neural network quantization whose geometry is informed by any Kronecker-factored approximation of the Hessian. GPTQ-style adaptive rounding typically uses one-sided information derived from input activations. Two-sided Kronecker-factored Hessian approximations can additionally capture correlations across output coordinates, but applying GPTQ directly in the vectorized weight domain is computationally expensive. Building on the two-sided adaptive-rounding formulation used by BoA and YAQA, we introduce BaK
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.06291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We accelerate a family of algorithms for neural network quantization whose geometry is informed by any Kronecker-factored approximation of the Hessian.
- GPTQ-style adaptive rounding typically uses one-sided information derived from input activations.
- Two-sided Kronecker-factored Hessian approximations can additionally capture correlations across output coordinates, but applying GPTQ directly in the vectorized weight domain is computationally expensive.
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