Q-Strata: Hierarchical Bit Allocation for Mixed-Precision Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

arXiv:2608.30564 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/snu-mllab/Q-Strata

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• Decode — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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