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ExTernD technique offers near-bf16 accuracy for LLMs at lower bit-widths · 4 sources tracked

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Researchers have developed ExTernD, a novel post-training quantization technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). This method decomposes LLM weight matrices into ternary factors and a diagonal scaling vector, allowing for expanded inner ranks that correct quantization errors. ExTernD demonstrates accuracy comparable to higher bit-width quantization methods like Q4_K and Q5_K on models such as Gemma-4-E2B and Qwen3.5-4B, while maintaining efficient memory and compute usage. AI

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  4. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chethan Reddy G. P ·

    ExTernD: Expanded-Rank Ternary Decomposition Ternary LLM PTQ with Accuracy Approaching Any Quantization Level

    arXiv:2607.13511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce ExTernD (Expanded-rank Ternary Decomposition), a post-training factorization of each LLM weight matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ into $A \approx B \mathrm{diag}(D) C$ with ternary factors $B \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{m \…

  5. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    ExTernD: Expanded-Rank Ternary Decomposition Ternary LLM PTQ with Accuracy Approaching Any Quantization Level

    We introduce ExTernD (Expanded-rank Ternary Decomposition), a post-training factorization of each LLM weight matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ into $A \approx B \mathrm{diag}(D) C$ with ternary factors $B \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{m \times k}$, $C \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{k \times n}$ and a …

  6. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chethan Reddy G. P ·

    ExTernD: Expanded-Rank Ternary Decomposition Ternary LLM PTQ with Accuracy Approaching Any Quantization Level

    We introduce ExTernD (Expanded-rank Ternary Decomposition), a post-training factorization of each LLM weight matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ into $A \approx B \mathrm{diag}(D) C$ with ternary factors $B \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{m \times k}$, $C \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{k \times n}$ and a …

  7. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/LMTLS5 ·

    ExTernD: Expanded-Rank Ternary Decomposition Ternary LLM PTQ with Accuracy Approaching Any Quantization Level [P]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.13511">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.13511</a></p> <p>the core idea is, we cannot have ternary PTQ with fixed matrix size, trying to do that is dead end. so i tried decomposing the matrix to 2 ternary matrices and…

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