DualQuant: Dual-scale Calibration-free Weight-and-Activation Quantization for LLMs

arXiv:2610.13767 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-10-09

Updated: 2026-10-09

Project page: https://dropbox.github.io/hqq_blog

Terminology

• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

Sources

• QuantEase: Optimization-based Quantization for Language Models
• Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge
• SmoothRot: Combining Channel-Wise Scaling and Rotation for Quantization-Friendly LLMs
• DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
• AdpQ: A Zero-shot Calibration Free Adaptive Post Training Quantization Method for LLMs
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Mixtral of Experts
• Microscaling Data Formats for Deep Learning
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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