Q-MINO: שיטה מינימלית לאימון תודעת קוונטיזציה

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2610.00738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Straight-Through Estimator (STE) is a widely used heuristic for Quantization-Aware Training (QAT), but its surrogate gradients can exhibit substantial mismatch with the underlying quantized objective, leading to noisy updates and parameter oscillations, particularly in ultra-low-bit regimes. We propose the Quantization-Aware Minimal-Norm Optimizer (Q-MINO), a temporal bundle method that combines gradient consensus, state-drift regularization, and an alignment constraint to construct stabilized, minimum-norm update directions from recent optimization states. Q-MINO solves the resulting constrained subproblem using a warm-started Frank--Wolfe procedure with a feasible fallback initialization. Theoretically, via a stochastic Lyapunov Kurdy