Qift: Shift-Friendly No-Zero W2 Post-Training Quantization for Rotated W2A4/KV4 LLM Inference

arXiv:2606.02823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two-bit weight quantization is attractive for memory-efficient LLM inference, but the standard W2 level set {-2,-1,0,+1} often collapses under aggressive W2A4/KV4 settings. We study the scalar level-set geometry of two-bit weights in a Hadamard-rotated quantization pipeline. Conventional asymmetric W2 substantially improves over the standard level set, indicating that W2A4 failure is not only a bit-width problem but also a reconstruction-level problem. Across all 224 linear modules in each of LLaMA-2-7B and LLaMA-3.1-8B, pretrained weights are al

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