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CodeQuant2: Enhanced Outlier Mitigation and Adaptive Clustering for Low-Precision LRMs

Xingyu Liu, Xiangyang Yin, Tianhua Xia, Haiyu Wang +1 more

Published

Nov 6, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Nov 6, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve task performance by generating longer intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs and makes low-precision quantization increasingly important. However, aggressively quantized models often perform poorly on reasoning tasks. We observe larger activation fluctuations during the first decoding steps of reasoning. Calibration that omits these early states may miss their activation fluctuations. To address these reasoning-specific quantization challenges, we propose \textbf{CodeQuant2}, a clustering-based LUT quantization framework for low-precision large reasoning models. CodeQuant2 mitigates activation outliers with rotation and scaling, uses clustering to represent non-uniform weight distributions, and adapts codebook sizes to the quantization difficulty of each layer. Guided by our observation of reasoning-time activation behavior, CodeQuant2 further improves calibration sample selection to better match actual decoding statistics. Combined with our customized LUT CUDA kernel, CodeQuant2 delivers substantial accuracy improvements on reasoning benchmarks while achieving up to $2.85\times$ speedup over BF16.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve task performance by generating longer intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs and makes low-precision quantization increasingly important."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve task performance by generating longer intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs and makes low-precision quantization increasingly important."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve task performance by generating longer intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs and makes low-precision quantization increasingly important."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve task performance by generating longer intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs and makes low-precision quantization increasingly important."

Reported Metrics

partial

Accuracy

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Combined with our customized LUT CUDA kernel, CodeQuant2 delivers substantial accuracy improvements on reasoning benchmarks while achieving up to $2.85\times$ speedup over BF16."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

accuracy
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve task performance by generating longer intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs and makes low-precision quantization increasingly important.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve task performance by generating longer intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs and makes low-precision quantization increasingly important.
  • However, aggressively quantized models often perform poorly on reasoning tasks.
  • We observe larger activation fluctuations during the first decoding steps of reasoning.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve task performance by generating longer intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs and makes low-precision quantization increasingly important.
  • However, aggressively quantized models often perform poorly on reasoning tasks.

Why it matters for eval

  • Combined with our customized LUT CUDA kernel, CodeQuant2 delivers substantial accuracy improvements on reasoning benchmarks while achieving up to $2.85\times$ speedup over BF16.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy