AHCPTQ: Accurate and Hardware-Compatible Post-Training Quantization for Segment Anything Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03088v1
• Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:04:45 GMT
• Title: AHCPTQ: Accurate and Hardware-Compatible Post-Training Quantization for Segment Anything Model
• Authors: Wenlun Zhang, Shimpei Ando, Kentaro Yoshioka,
• Abstract summary: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong versatility across various visual tasks.<n>Post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as an effective strategy for efficient deployment.<n>We propose AHCPTQ, an accurate and hardware-efficient PTQ method for SAM.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong versatility across various visual tasks. However, its large storage requirements and high computational cost pose challenges for practical deployment. Post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as an effective strategy for efficient deployment, but we identify two key challenges in SAM that hinder the effectiveness of existing PTQ methods: the heavy-tailed and skewed distribution of post-GELU activations, and significant inter-channel variation in linear projection activations. To address these challenges, we propose AHCPTQ, an accurate and hardware-efficient PTQ method for SAM. AHCPTQ introduces hardware-compatible Hybrid Log-Uniform Quantization (HLUQ) to manage post-GELU activations, employing log2 quantization for dense small values and uniform quantization for sparse large values to enhance quantization resolution. Additionally, AHCPTQ incorporates Channel-Aware Grouping (CAG) to mitigate inter-channel variation by progressively clustering activation channels with similar distributions, enabling them to share quantization parameters and improving hardware efficiency. The combination of HLUQ and CAG not only enhances quantization effectiveness but also ensures compatibility with efficient hardware execution. For instance, under the W4A4 configuration on the SAM-L model, AHCPTQ achieves 36.6% mAP on instance segmentation with the DINO detector, while achieving a 7.89x speedup and 8.64x energy efficiency over its floating-point counterpart in FPGA implementation.

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