BiSCo-LLM:无查找表二进制球面编码实现极低比特LLM压缩

BiSCo-LLM: Lookup-Free Binary Spherical Coding for Extreme Low-Bit Large Language Model Compression

精选理由

想省显存又不想损失太多模型质量?BiSCo-LLM用二进制球面编码把LLM压到2比特,不用查码表,存储更省。

AI 摘要

BiSCo-LLM是一种无码本的二进制球面编码框架,用于将LLM权重压缩到极低比特(目标2比特每权重)。它的核心流程先将局部权重块映射到单位超球面并二值化为紧凑球面码,主载荷为比特打包的符号流,无需存储码本。残差BSQ阶段对重构误差编码,提供显式率失真路径。分类权重恢复蒸馏在每个Transformer模块替换后执行,减少重构误差与模型行为间的失配。一个8位保护通道路径用于敏感通道的辅助稳定,其存储计入总预算。

原文 · arXiv cs.LG

BiSCo-LLM: Lookup-Free Binary Spherical Coding for Extreme Low-Bit Large Language Model Compression

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly constrained by memory capacity, weight bandwidth, and checkpoint storage during deployment. Existing low-bit compression methods mainly follow two directions. Scalar or group-wise quantization is simple and compatible with efficient low-precision kernels, but its representation capacity becomes limited when the target budget approaches 2 bits per weight. Vector-quantized weight compression provides a richer block-level representation, but usually introduces explicit codebooks, index lookup, and additional storage accounting. This paper presents BiSCo-LLM, a codebook-free binary spherical coding framework for extreme low-bit LLM weight compression. The core pipeline is built on three components. First, local weight chunks are mapped onto a unit hypersphere and binarized into compact spherical codes, so that the main payload is a bit-packed sign stream rather than explicit VQ centroids. Second, a residual BSQ stage encodes the reconstruction error left by the base spherical codec, providing an explicit rate-distortion path without stored codebooks. Third, category-wise recovery distillation is performed after replacing each Transformer module category, reducing the mismatch between local weight reconstruction and assembled model behavior. A small 8-bit protected-channel path is used as an auxiliary stabilization mechanism for sensitive channels and is counted separately from the BSQ payload. The reported storage budget includes binary codes, neural decoders, protected-channel payloads, LoRA adapters, and metadata.