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Rate-Distortion Optimization for Transformer Inference

Alon Harell, Anderson de Andrade, Ivan V. Baji\'c

A rate-distortion framework lets transformers compress intermediate representations to cut inference bitrate while preserving accuracy.

arxiv:2601.22002 v4 · 2026-01-29 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT

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C1strongest claim

The simplest of the proposed codecs achieves substantial rate savings, outperforming more complex methods, and empirical rates for different architectures and tasks are driven by the derived information-theoretic bounds on achievable rate.

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That the learned compression of intermediate representations preserves downstream task accuracy sufficiently for the rate-distortion tradeoff to remain useful in practice, without the paper specifying how accuracy degradation is measured across all possible splits.

C3one line summary

A rate-distortion framework for lossy compression of transformer representations yields substantial bitrate savings on language tasks while preserving accuracy, with observed rates aligning to derived information-theoretic bounds.

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arxiv: 2601.22002 · arxiv_version: 2601.22002v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.22002 · pith_short_12: 6WJVDM3VOOUX · pith_short_16: 6WJVDM3VOOUXRUZL · pith_short_8: 6WJVDM3V

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