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Rainie Heck
dblp:397/3618
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Efficient and distributed learning · 87% Language models and text generation · 13% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Combinatorics and discrete mathematics · 50% Mathematical optimization · 50% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
model compression |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DiscQuant: A Quantization Method for Neural Networks Inspired by Discrepancy Theory · COLT 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression
quantization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DiscQuant: A Quantization Method for Neural Networks Inspired by Discrepancy Theory · COLT 2025 |
Combinatorics and discrete mathematics
discrepancy theory |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DiscQuant: A Quantization Method for Neural Networks Inspired by Discrepancy Theory · COLT 2025 |
Mathematical optimization › linear programming relaxation
rounding |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DiscQuant: A Quantization Method for Neural Networks Inspired by Discrepancy Theory · COLT 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | DiscQuant: A Quantization Method for Neural Networks Inspired by Discrepancy Theory · COLT 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sticky brownian motion · 1.7lovett-meka algorithm · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | DiscQuant: A Quantization Method for Neural Networks Inspired by Discrepancy TheoryabstractQuantizing the weights of a neural network has two steps: (1) Finding a good low bit-complexity representation for weights (which we call the quantization grid) and (2) Rounding the original weights to values in the quantization grid. In this paper, we study the problem of rounding optimally given any quantization grid. The simplest and most commonly used way to round is Round-to-Nearest (RTN). By rounding in a data-dependent way instead, one can improve the quality of the quantized model significantly. We study the rounding problem from the lens of \emph{discrepancy theory}, which studies how well we can round a continuous solution to a discrete solution without affecting solution quality too much. We prove that given $m=\poly\left(\frac{\log n}{\epsilon}\right)$ samples from the data distribution, we can round nearly all $n$ model parameters such that the expected approximation error of the quantized model on the true data distribution is $\le \epsilon$ as long as the space of gradients of the original model is approximately low rank (which we empirically validate). Our algorithm is based on the famous Lovett-Meka algorithm from discrepancy theory and uses sticky Brownian motion to find a good rounding. We also give a simple and practical rounding algorithm called \emph{DiscQuant}, which is inspired by our theoretical insights. In our experiments, we demonstrate that DiscQuant significantly improves over the prior state-of-the-art rounding method called GPTQ and the baseline RTN over a range of benchmarks on Phi3mini-3.8B and Llama3.1-8B. For example, rounding Phi3mini-3.8B to a fixed quantization grid with 3.25 bits per parameter using DiscQuant gets 64% accuracy on the GSM8k dataset, whereas GPTQ achieves 54% and RTN achieves 31% (the original model achieves 84%). We make our code available at \url{https://github.com/jerry-chee/DiscQuant}. Jerry Chee, Arturs Backurs, Rainie Heck, Janardhan Kulkarni, Thomas Rothvoß, Sivakanth Gopi |
COLT | 3 |