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Randomized Hadamard Transforms Proven Effective for AI Quantization

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Researchers have mathematically proven the effectiveness of using randomized Hadamard transforms (RHTs) as an efficient alternative to uniform random rotations in various AI applications. The study demonstrates that composing two RHTs ensures that individual coordinate distributions closely approximate Gaussian distributions, matching the performance of URRs in schemes like DRIVE and QUIC-FL. For vector quantization, three RHTs are shown to be necessary to achieve decaying coordinate covariance, ensuring comparable performance to URRs. The research also introduces a runtime check to dynamically adjust the number of RHTs used, optimizing performance for practical, non-adversarial inputs. AI

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Randomized Hadamard Transforms Proven Effective for AI Quantization

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Boris Prokhorov ·

    Provable Quantization with Randomized Hadamard Transform

    Vector quantization via random projection followed by scalar quantization is a fundamental primitive in machine learning, with applications ranging from similarity search to federated learning and KV cache compression. While dense random rotations yield clean theoretical guarante…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ran Ben-Basat, William Kuszmaul, Michael Mitzenmacher, Amit Portnoy, Shay Vargaftik ·

    Quantizing With Randomized Hadamard Transforms: Efficient Heuristic Now Proven

    arXiv:2605.06014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uniform random rotations (URRs) are a common preprocessing step in modern quantization approaches used for gradient compression, inference acceleration, KV-cache compression, model weight quantization, and approximate nearest-neighb…

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

    Quantizing With Randomized Hadamard Transforms: Efficient Heuristic Now Proven

    Uniform random rotations (URRs) are a common preprocessing step in modern quantization approaches used for gradient compression, inference acceleration, KV-cache compression, model weight quantization, and approximate nearest-neighbor search in vector databases. In practice, URRs…

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