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This research introduces FAMPWQ, a novel quantization technique leveraging Fisher information metrics and reinforcement learning to optimize Large Language Model inference on commodity hardware. By implementing layer-adaptive bit-width allocation, the method significantly reduces performance degradation typically associated with uniform quantization strategies. The approach demonstrates substantial gains in perplexity and accuracy across multiple benchmarks, offering a practical pathway for deploying efficient LLMs on resource-constrained devices.
FAMPWQ: Fisher Information-based Adaptive Mixed Precision Weight Quantization for Effective LLM Inference
arXiv:2608.24945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent years have witnessed remarkable achievements of Large Language Models (LLMs) in multiple domains, while the excessive resource requirements of LLMs hinder the deployment on resource-constrained devices. Although model quantization stands out as an effective approach, conventional quantization approaches typically incur severe performance degradation due to uniform bit-width or simple heuristic sensitivity evaluation. In this paper, we propose a novel Fisher information-based Adaptive Mixed Precision Weight Quantization approach, i.e., FAMPWQ, which performs layer-adaptive weight quantization for effective LLM inference on commodity GPUs. First, we propose a system model with a novel Fisher information metric to measure the layer-wise sensitivity to quantization. Second, we propose a reinforcement learning-based bit-width allocator in FAMPWQ, which generates an adaptive bit-width allocation strategy based on the Fisher information sensitivity metric. Extensive experiments on 7 models and 5 benchmarks demonstrate that FAMPWQ significantly outperforms 7 baseline approaches in terms of PPL (up to 3.39 smaller), accuracy (up to 6.87% higher), and LLM-as-a-judge comparison (up to 76% win rate).
Abstract:Recent years have witnessed remarkable achievements of Large Language Models (LLMs) in multiple domains, while the excessive resource requirements of LLMs hinder the deployment on resource-constrained devices. Although model quantization stands out as an effective approach, conventional quantization approaches typically incur severe performance degradation due to uniform bit-width or simple heuristic sensitivity evaluation. In this paper, we propose a novel Fisher information-based Adaptive Mixed Precision Weight Quantization approach, i.e., FAMPWQ, which performs layer-adaptive weight quantization for effective LLM inference on commodity GPUs. First, we propose a system model with a novel Fisher information metric to measure the layer-wise sensitivity to quantization. Second, we propose a reinforcement learning-based bit-width allocator in FAMPWQ, which generates an adaptive bit-width allocation strategy based on the Fisher information sensitivity metric. Extensive experiments on 7 models and 5 benchmarks demonstrate that FAMPWQ significantly outperforms 7 baseline approaches in terms of PPL (up to 3.39 smaller), accuracy (up to 6.87% higher), and LLM-as-a-judge comparison (up to 76% win rate).
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
arXiv:2608.24945 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2608.24945v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.24945 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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