arXiv:2512.00956v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantizing LLM weights and activations is a standard approach for efficient deployment, but a few extreme outliers can stretch the dynamic range and amplify low-bit quantization errors. Prior transform-based mitigations (e.g., Hadamard rotations) are fixed and data-agnostic, and their optimality for quantization has remained unclear. We derive closed-form optimal linear blockwise transforms for joint weight-activation quantization under standard RTN AbsMax-scaled block quantizers, covering both integer and floating-point formats. The resultin
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