SigmaScale

SigmaScale: LLM Compression with SVD-based Low-Rank Decomposition and Learned Scaling Matrices

Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SigmaScale, a method for learning auxiliary scaling matrices $S$ to aid truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based Large Language Model (LLM) compression. Instead of deriving scaling matrices analytically, SigmaScale optimizes two sets of vectors that define diagonal row and column scaling transformations under an activation-aware compression loss. We show that learned scaling lowers the effective intrinsic rank of weight matrices, as reflected...