PD-Quant: Post-Training Quantization based on Prediction Difference Metric

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07048v3
• Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:47:22 GMT
• Title: PD-Quant: Post-Training Quantization based on Prediction Difference Metric
• Authors: Jiawei Liu, Lin Niu, Zhihang Yuan, Dawei Yang, Xinggang Wang, Wenyu Liu
• Abstract summary: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a neural network compression technique that converts a full-precision model into a quantized model using lower-precision data types. How to determine the appropriate quantization parameters is the main problem facing now. PD-Quant is a method that addresses this limitation by considering global information.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a neural network compression technique that converts a full-precision model into a quantized model using lower-precision data types. Although it can help reduce the size and computational cost of deep neural networks, it can also introduce quantization noise and reduce prediction accuracy, especially in extremely low-bit settings. How to determine the appropriate quantization parameters (e.g., scaling factors and rounding of weights) is the main problem facing now. Existing methods attempt to determine these parameters by minimize the distance between features before and after quantization, but such an approach only considers local information and may not result in the most optimal quantization parameters. We analyze this issue and ropose PD-Quant, a method that addresses this limitation by considering global information. It determines the quantization parameters by using the information of differences between network prediction before and after quantization. In addition, PD-Quant can alleviate the overfitting problem in PTQ caused by the small number of calibration sets by adjusting the distribution of activations. Experiments show that PD-Quant leads to better quantization parameters and improves the prediction accuracy of quantized models, especially in low-bit settings. For example, PD-Quant pushes the accuracy of ResNet-18 up to 53.14% and RegNetX-600MF up to 40.67% in weight 2-bit activation 2-bit. The code is released at https://github.com/hustvl/PD-Quant.

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