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Closing the Null Space: Guidance-Aware Quantization for Classifier-Free Diffusion

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Closing the Null Space: Guidance-Aware Quantization for Classifier-Free Diffusion

arXiv:2607.08241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying classifier-free guidance (CFG) diffusion models under real-world compute budgets requires quantization, yet existing post-training quantization (PTQ) methods treat CFG models as single-branch networks, ignoring the paired conditional/unconditional structure that CFG inference fundamentally relies on. This structural blind spot has two consequences. At the system level, the two-pass CFG execution pattern imposes a latency overhead that parameter-count and bit-operation metrics conceal entirely, and commodity INT8 inference stacks fail

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