Is 2:4 Sparsity Still Worth It? Semi-Structured Sparsity versus Quantization in LLM Inference

arXiv:2610.28947 · cs.LG, cs.PF · Submitted 2026-10-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.PF

Submitted: 2026-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-20

Terminology

• Sparsity — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes

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