Summary of Hq-dit: Efficient Diffusion Transformer with Fp4 Hybrid Quantization, by Wenxuan Liu and Sai Qian Zhang
HQ-DiT: Efficient Diffusion Transformer with FP4 Hybrid Quantization
by Wenxuan Liu, Sai Qian Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Hybrid Floating-point Quantization for Diffusion Transformers (HQ-DiT), a novel post-training quantization method that efficiently reduces the parameter count and implementation costs of DiTs, making them suitable for resource-limited devices like mobile phones. The proposed approach utilizes 4-bit floating-point precision for both weights and activations during inference, outperforming traditional fixed-point quantization methods like INT8. HQ-DiT’s clipping range selection mechanism and universal identity mathematical transform work together to minimize quantization error caused by outliers. Experimental results demonstrate that DiTs can be quantized to just 4 bits without significant performance degradation. This breakthrough has the potential to revolutionize visual generation capabilities on resource-constrained devices. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper is about a new way to make computer models called Diffusion Transformers work better and use less memory on devices like smartphones. Traditional methods for making these models work on phones are too slow and use too much power, so the authors came up with a new method that reduces the amount of information needed to run the model. This new method uses special math tricks to make sure the model doesn’t get confused by weird data points. The results show that this new method can work just as well as the old methods, but it’s much faster and more efficient. This could be very useful for people who want to use these models on their phones or other devices. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Inference » Precision » Quantization
