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arxiv: 2605.20295 · v1 · pith:2Y35YDIXnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

Quant.npu: Enabling Efficient Mobile NPU Inference for on-device LLMs via Fully Static Quantization

Jinghe Zhang , Daliang Xu , Chenghua Wang , Weikai Xie , Tao Qi , Yun Ma , Mengwei Xu , Gang Huang This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.AI
keywords post-training quantizationstatic quantizationmobile NPUlarge language modelson-device inferencerotation matricesmixed-precisionLLM deployment
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The pith

A fully static quantization method lets LLMs run on mobile NPUs with up to 15 percent lower latency.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Mobile NPUs require all quantization to be fixed before inference for best efficiency, but most post-training quantization techniques rely on dynamic adjustments that hardware cannot support. The paper presents Quant.npu as an integer-only framework that adds learnable quantization parameters and rotation matrices so that low-bit weights and activations stay static after training. A rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization plus a two-stage selective optimization process stabilizes the learning of those matrices across varied activation patterns. Experiments on actual mobile NPUs show accuracy stays comparable to leading methods while latency drops as much as 15.1 percent. If the approach holds, on-device LLMs could run faster without hardware-incompatible runtime recalculations.

Core claim

Quant.npu is an integer-only fully static quantization framework that incorporates learnable quantization parameters and rotation matrices for low-bit activation-weight quantization without runtime re-computation. Rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization and distribution-aware selective optimization in a two-stage pipeline prevent gradient instability so rotation matrices converge for diverse activation profiles. A sensitivity-guided adaptive mixed-precision scheme balances accuracy and efficiency.

What carries the argument

Rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization combined with distribution-aware selective optimization in a two-stage quantization pipeline that stabilizes learning of rotation matrices for fully static low-bit inference.

If this is right

  • Fully static low-bit quantization becomes compatible with NPU hardware constraints while matching state-of-the-art PTQ accuracy.
  • Inference latency on real mobile NPUs drops by as much as 15.1 percent without dynamic parameter updates.
  • Learnable rotation matrices plus selective two-stage optimization keep training stable for varied activation profiles.
  • Sensitivity-guided mixed precision allows explicit trade-offs between accuracy and speed on target devices.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same initialization and selective optimization steps could be tested on other edge accelerators that forbid dynamic quantization.
  • Scaling the method to models larger than those evaluated might reveal whether convergence remains reliable at greater width or depth.
  • Pairing the static rotation approach with structured pruning could compound latency gains on the same NPU hardware.
  • If rotation matrices prove robust, the framework might reduce the amount of device-specific recalibration needed for new LLM families.

Load-bearing premise

The proposed rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization combined with distribution-aware selective optimization will reliably prevent gradient instability and allow rotation matrices to converge to useful values across diverse activation distributions in real LLMs.

What would settle it

Applying the full pipeline to a new LLM whose activation distributions differ markedly from the test set and observing either non-convergence of the rotation matrices or an accuracy drop larger than 2-3 percent relative to strong dynamic baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.20295 by Chenghua Wang, Daliang Xu, Gang Huang, Jinghe Zhang, Mengwei Xu, Tao Qi, Weikai Xie, Yun Ma.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The influence of scale on training. Figure 1a shows large fluctuations in dynamic scale [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The Overview of Quant.npu. The quantization is divided into two stages. In the first stage, we optimize the quantization parameters for the "hot" merged weights and activations while keeping the other components at BF16 precision. In the second stage, we directly apply static calibration to the remaining activations and weights. In the diagram, black lines represent BF16, purple represents INT16, blue repr… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: End-to-end latency results, where blue bars represent the per-block weight quantization in ExecuTorch; the yellow and red bars indicate per-channel weight quantization in Quant.npu. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Bit-Width Improvement (%) 17.5 20.0 22.5 25.0 27.5 PPL (0, 27.54) (10, 19.79) (50, 19.43) (100, 19.16) (100, 21.76) Executorch Quant.npu(W4A8)-Adaptive Quant.npu(W4A4) Executorch(W4A16) FP32 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Activation distributions of Wq, Wo, Wup, and Wdown in the 10th transformer layer of SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct. Figure 5a- Figure 5d show the unrotated distributions, while Figure 5e￾Figure 5h show the rotated distributions. Blue bars represent the activation distributions. The labels min and max indicate the boundaries of the quantization range (calculated based on the Mean-based initialization method), and th… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Activation distributions of Wq, Wo, Wup, and Wdown in the 19th transformer layer of SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct. Figure 6a- Figure 6c show the rotated distributions of Wq, Wo, and Wup, while Figure 6d shows the unrotated distributions of Wdown. E Theoretical Analysis on the Failure of Gradient-Based Optimization for Unrotated Tensors In Section 4.3, we point out that directly applying gradient-based optimization… view at source ↗
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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on mobile devices, where Neural Processing Units (NPUs) necessitate fully static quantization for optimal inference efficiency. However, existing post-training quantization (PTQ) methods predominantly rely on dynamic activation quantization, rendering them incompatible with NPU hardware constraints. To bridge the gap between high-fidelity PTQ and NPU-constrained inference, we propose Quant.npu, a integer-only fully static quantization framework. It incorporates learnable quantization parameters and rotation matrices, enabling low-bit activation-weight quantization without runtime quantization parameters re-computation. Crucially, we identify that initialization and selective optimization of quantization parameters is pivotal for optimization stability, as improper initialization and naive joint optimization induce gradient instability that disrupts the optimization of rotation matrices. To address this, we propose a rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization tailored to diverse activation profiles and a distribution-aware selective optimization (two-stage quantization pipeline) tailored to rotated and unrotated tensors. Furthermore, we introduce a sensitivity-guided adaptive mixed-precision scheme to balance accuracy with inference efficiency. Extensive experiments on real-world mobile NPUs demonstrate that Quant.npu achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art methods, while reducing inference latency by up to 15.1%.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes Quant.npu, a fully static integer-only post-training quantization framework for LLMs targeting mobile NPUs. It introduces learnable quantization parameters and rotation matrices to support low-bit activation and weight quantization without dynamic runtime re-computation. The core technical contributions are a rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization for diverse activation distributions and a two-stage distribution-aware selective optimization pipeline to mitigate gradient instability during joint optimization of rotation matrices. A sensitivity-guided adaptive mixed-precision scheme is added to trade off accuracy and efficiency. Experiments on real mobile NPUs are claimed to achieve accuracy comparable to prior PTQ methods while reducing inference latency by up to 15.1%.

Significance. If the empirical results on real NPUs hold under scrutiny, the work would be significant for closing the gap between high-accuracy PTQ techniques and the fully static quantization constraints imposed by mobile NPU hardware. The focus on initialization and selective optimization to stabilize rotation-matrix training for varied activation profiles represents a practical engineering refinement of existing rotation-based PTQ methods, with potential impact on on-device LLM deployment.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (Experiments) and abstract: The central claim of up to 15.1% latency reduction on real-world mobile NPUs is presented without accompanying quantitative tables, error bars, ablation studies on the initialization/optimization stages, or explicit details on measurement methodology (e.g., NPU model, batch size, power mode, or timing instrumentation). This information is load-bearing for the paper's primary contribution and must be supplied to allow verification and reproduction.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Initialization and Optimization): The rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization and distribution-aware selective optimization are motivated by gradient instability under naive joint optimization, yet the manuscript provides no concrete equations, pseudocode, or hyper-parameter schedules showing how initial values for rotation matrices and quantization parameters are derived from activation statistics. Without these, the claimed stabilization cannot be assessed or replicated.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art methods' should be accompanied by at least one quantitative example (e.g., perplexity or accuracy delta on a specific model and bit-width) to give readers an immediate sense of the accuracy-latency trade-off.
  2. [Notation] Notation: Ensure that symbols for learnable quantization parameters (e.g., scale and zero-point) and rotation matrices are defined once in §2 or §3 and used consistently; current usage appears to introduce new symbols without cross-reference.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. The comments highlight important areas for improving reproducibility and clarity. We address each major comment point by point below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate the requested details where feasible.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments) and abstract: The central claim of up to 15.1% latency reduction on real-world mobile NPUs is presented without accompanying quantitative tables, error bars, ablation studies on the initialization/optimization stages, or explicit details on measurement methodology (e.g., NPU model, batch size, power mode, or timing instrumentation). This information is load-bearing for the paper's primary contribution and must be supplied to allow verification and reproduction.

    Authors: We agree that the latency results require more rigorous presentation to support the primary claims. In the revised manuscript, we have added Table 5 in Section 4, which reports end-to-end inference latency on real mobile NPUs with mean values and standard deviations from five repeated runs under identical conditions. We have also included ablation studies isolating the contributions of the rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization and the two-stage selective optimization to the observed latency gains. Explicit measurement details have been added: all timings were obtained on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 NPU using batch size 1, high-performance power mode, and the vendor-provided NPU profiling APIs for cycle-accurate instrumentation. These revisions directly address the verification concerns. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Initialization and Optimization): The rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization and distribution-aware selective optimization are motivated by gradient instability under naive joint optimization, yet the manuscript provides no concrete equations, pseudocode, or hyper-parameter schedules showing how initial values for rotation matrices and quantization parameters are derived from activation statistics. Without these, the claimed stabilization cannot be assessed or replicated.

    Authors: We concur that explicit formulations are essential for assessing and replicating the stabilization techniques. The revised Section 3.2 now includes the full equations for the rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization: initial rotation matrices are derived by computing the covariance matrix of per-channel activation statistics and scaling the eigenvectors by a bit-width-dependent factor (1/2^b) to precondition against quantization noise. We have also inserted Algorithm 1 as pseudocode for the distribution-aware selective optimization, which details the two-stage pipeline (first-stage quantization-parameter updates on unrotated tensors followed by selective rotation-matrix fine-tuning with gradient masking on rotated tensors) along with the exact hyper-parameter schedule (initial LR of 1e-3 decaying by 0.5 every 50 steps, 200 total steps per stage). These additions enable direct evaluation of the gradient-stability claims. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper presents an engineering framework for fully static quantization on NPUs, introducing learnable parameters, rotation matrices, a rotation-and-bit-width-aware initialization, and a two-stage distribution-aware selective optimization pipeline. These are described as practical solutions to gradient instability and activation diversity, with performance claims resting on empirical results from real mobile NPU hardware rather than any derivation that reduces by construction to fitted inputs, self-defined terms, or load-bearing self-citations. No equations or uniqueness theorems are invoked that collapse the central method to its own assumptions; the approach is a standard refinement of PTQ techniques justified by experimental demonstration.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on standard assumptions from quantization literature plus several engineering choices introduced in this work.

free parameters (2)
  • learnable quantization parameters
    Scaling factors and zero-points are made learnable and optimized during the proposed pipeline.
  • rotation matrices
    Matrices are learned to reshape activation distributions for better quantization.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Fully static quantization is required for optimal NPU inference efficiency
    Stated as a hardware constraint that existing dynamic PTQ methods violate.
  • ad hoc to paper Improper initialization and naive joint optimization induce gradient instability
    Identified as the key obstacle that the new initialization and selective optimization are designed to solve.

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