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Learnable Cloud-Guided LLM Quantization for Resource-Constrained Edge Devices

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Qinxiao Deng *
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T. Pang
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Benteng Zhang
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Bingbing Nie
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Xiaoming He
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Xiangyu Wu
DOI:10.1007/978-3-032-10459-5_33delete
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Model quantization is crucial for deploying large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained edge devices. However, in cloud-edge collaboration, edge devices (EDs) often lack the resources for on-device quantization. Moreover, existing Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) methods employ a static parameter approach, which fails to adapt to diverse local data distributions. To address these challenges, we propose a novel method, Learnable Quantization Guided by Distribution Correction (LQGDC), for generating an optimal, lightweight model that can be delivered to the ED for local inference within a cloud-edge collaborative framework. In this framework, edge devices upload a small amount of local data to the cloud as a calibration set. The cloud server then selects a suitable pre-trained model from a Model Pool and applies LQGDC to quantize the model. LQGDC introduces learnable parameters for weights, activations, and key-value (KV) cache. LQGDC employs a composite loss function that combines Mean Squared Error (MSE), cosine similarity, and Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to fine-tune parameters, thereby matching each devices unique data distribution. Experiments on seven datasets demonstrate that LQGDC outperforms all three current baselines in both language generation and zero-shot tasks. Specifically, when quantizing LLaMA-13B to W4A4KV4, LQGDC reduces average perplexity (PPL) by 1.92 and improves zero-shot task accuracy by 2.14% compared to the best baseline. This approach shows promise for single AI task implementation on resource-constrained EDs (e.g., complex voice command processing on smartphones, real-time visual defect detection on industrial drones, and document analysis with long-term context).
Keywords:
LLMs
Model quantization
Local Inference
Cloud-Edge Collaboration
Post-Training Quantization

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NETWORK AND PARALLEL COMPUTING, NPC 2025, PT I
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nanjing university of posts & telecommunications
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Temple University
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hohai university
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pennsylvania commonwealth system of higher education (pcshe)
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