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Rotation Is Token-Blind: A Structural Criterion for Post-Training Quantization of Feed-Forward Geometry Transformers

/ Paper arXiv 2611.07955

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3.1×with up to 3.1× speedup on real hardware

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Feed-forward 3D models use Transformers to predict camera poses, depth, and structure in one pass, avoiding iterative multi-view optimization. Long sequences and deep attention incur high compute and memory costs, motivating Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) for deployment. Existing PTQ methods mainly suppress channel-wise outliers by smoothing or orthogonal rotation. Geometry Transformers introduce a different challenge: heterogeneous token types share one activation quantization grid. A few special tokens may exert high leverage over global outputs and be updated by only a subset of blocks. Token-blind transforms, which apply the same transformation to every token, reduce overall quantization error but cannot remove differentiated degradation across token types. We propose QMapAnything, a structure-aware PTQ framework. We cast floating-point-preserving rotation and smoothing as a token-blind reparameterization group, and prove that they yield common-mode gains while leaving relative token SNR unchanged. We introduce a statistic $Γ$ that combines a special token's quantization disadvantage and output leverage to predict whether differentiated bias correction is needed beyond rotation. Experiments on geometric benchmarks show that W4A8 closely matches full-precision performance. Under W8A8, peak memory falls by $2.2$--3.1× versus FP32, with up to 3.1× speedup on real hardware. These results provide a principled and efficient approach to deploying feed-forward 3D reconstruction models in resource-constrained edges.

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