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arXiv: cs.AI preprintsInternational6 November 2026

Zero-Shot Quantization via Weight-Space Arithmetic

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arXiv:2604.03420v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We show that robustness to post-training quantization (PTQ) is a transferable direction in weight space. We call this direction the quantization vector: extracted from a donor task by simple weight-space arithmetic, it can be used to patch a receiver model and improve PTQ Top-1 accuracy by up to 60% in a 3-bit setting, without receiver-side quantization-aware training (QAT). When using no receiver validation data, the method provides a zero-shot, low-cost alternative to QAT for extremely low-bit deployment. Across multiple vision and la
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