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[Submitted on 16 Aug 2026] Title:PRQuant: Permutation Residual Quantization for Low-Overhead Inference View a PDF of the paper titled PRQuant: Permutation Residual Quantization for Low-Overhead Inference, by Peiran Wang and 11 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Accuracy of Low-bit quantization of linear layers is often dominated by a small number of outliers. Although existing methods, such as smoothing, rotation, or residual-based approaches, may mitigate this problem, they often introduce new accuracy bottlenecks to weights. Besides, most of these techniques are implemented as online approaches, which can result in heavy execution overheads. To address the afore-mentioned issues, We propose PRQuant (Permutation Residual Quantization), a training-free and low-overhead framework that combines channel reorganization with static weight-side residual compensation. After AWQ-style scaling, PRQuant identifies the input channels that contribute most to weight quantization error, permutes them into contiguous tail blocks, and constructs their residual weight sub-tensors offline. During inference, this contiguous structure enables the activation side to use tail blocks seamlessly without the expensive online gathering operation, and turns scattered residual compensation into a regular tail-augmented GEMM, substantially reducing latency. Experiments demonstrate that PRQuant effectively reduces down-projection reconstruction error. Ablation studies confirm that smoothing and residual compensation are the primary drivers of numerical improvement, while permutation provides a consistent marginal numerical benefit and, more importantly, enables a hardware-friendly contiguous layout that eliminates dynamic gathering overhead. Overall, PRQuant outperforms default MXFP4 and the evaluated PTQ baselines in average accuracy across five downstream benchmarks, improving over MXFP4 by 1.24 and 0.55 on Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 and Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507, respectively. Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2609.22106 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2609.22106v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.22106 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Peiran Wang [view email] [v1] Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:04:26 UTC (941 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled PRQuant: Permutation Residual Quantization for Low-Overhead Inference, by Peiran Wang and 11 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.LG new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.CV References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender (What is IArxiv?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)