PPoPP 2026
Sat 31 January - Wed 4 February 2026 Sydney, Australia
co-located with HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC 2026
Tue 3 Feb 2026 11:30 - 11:50 at Balmoral - Mixed Precision and Quantization Chair(s): Dingwen Tao

Mixed precision quantization has been adopted to accelerate large language models (LLMs) serving by leveraging high-throughput low-precision compute units in GPUs while preserving outliers in higher precision to maintain model accuracy. However, existing methods focus on mitigating single-dimensional channel-wise outliers, leading to model accuracy degradation when scaled to 4-bit precision.

In this paper, we present an algorithm-system co-design to effectively handle dual-dimensional outliers across both channel and token dimensions in LLMs. We introduce a novel rotation-based mixed precision quantization algorithm that suppresses and migrates channel-wise outliers to the token dimension. Based on this algorithm, we propose RoMeo, an efficient LLM serving system designed to overcome the unique system challenges posed by sparse computation pattern and dynamic outlier detection inherent in token-wise outlier handling. Extensive evaluations across various LLMs demonstrate that RoMeo improves quantized model accuracy by up to $5.17%$ compared to state-of-the-art methods QuaRot and MixQ, while maintaining efficiency comparable to uniform precision quantizations, achieving up to $2.10 \times$ end-to-end speedup over half-precision baseline. RoMeo is available at https://github.com/thu-pacman/RoMeo.

Tue 3 Feb

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11:30 - 12:50
Mixed Precision and QuantizationMain Conference at Balmoral
Chair(s): Dingwen Tao Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:30
20m
Talk
RoMeo: Mitigating Dual-dimensional Outliers with Rotated Mixed Precision Quantization
Main Conference
Qihao Zhang Tsinghua University, MingLiang Tang Tsinghua University, Mingshu Zhai Tsinghua University, Kinman Lei Tsinghua University, Jidong Zhai Tsinghua University
DOI
11:50
20m
Talk
High-Throughput Non-Uniformly Quantized 3-bit LLM Inference
Main Conference
YuAng Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wenqi Zeng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jeffrey Xu Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong
DOI
12:10
20m
Talk
JanusQuant: Accurate and Efficient 2-bit KV Cache Quantization for Long-Context Inference
Main Conference
Chengyu Sun Wuhan University, Yaqi Xia Wuhan University, Hulin Wang , Donglin Yang Nvidia Corporation, Xiaobo Zhou University of Macau, Dazhao Cheng WuHan University
DOI
12:30
20m
Talk
HierCut: Enabling 16-bit Format Mixed Precision for Molecular Dynamics through Hierarchical CutoffBest Artifact Award
Main Conference
zeyu song Tsinghua University, Lin Gan Tsinghua University, Xiaohui Duan Shandong University, Jiayu Fu Tsinghua University, Zhengrui Li Tsinghua University, Yinuo Wang Tsinghua University, Guangzhao Li Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangwen Yang Tsinghua University
DOI