Signed Symmetric Quantization for Few-Bit Integers
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arXiv:2607.08779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The signed integer alphabet contains one more negative representable value than positive. Yet, by convention, the standard symmetric integer quantizer fixes its scale to be strictly positive, which assigns this extra representable value to the negative tail and can force clipping of positive outliers. In this work, we show that, at few-bit precision, such clipping is a non-trivial source of quantization error. Asymmetric quantization addresses…
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- arXiv:2607.08779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The signed integer alphabet contains one more negative representable value than positive.
- Yet, by convention, the standard symmetric integer quantizer fixes its scale to be strictly positive, which assigns this extra representable value to the negative tail and can force clipping of positive outliers.
- In this work, we show that, at few-bit precision, such clipping is a non-trivial source of quantization error.
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