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Main Authors: Ramachandran, Akshat, Lee, Mingyu, Xu, Huan, Kundu, Souvik, Krishna, Tushar
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10959
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author Ramachandran, Akshat
Lee, Mingyu
Xu, Huan
Kundu, Souvik
Krishna, Tushar
author_facet Ramachandran, Akshat
Lee, Mingyu
Xu, Huan
Kundu, Souvik
Krishna, Tushar
contents We present OuroMamba, the first data-free post-training quantization (DFQ) method for vision Mamba-based models (VMMs). We identify two key challenges in enabling DFQ for VMMs, (1) VMM's recurrent state transitions restricts capturing of long-range interactions and leads to semantically weak synthetic data, (2) VMM activations exhibit dynamic outlier variations across time-steps, rendering existing static PTQ techniques ineffective. To address these challenges, OuroMamba presents a two-stage framework: (1) OuroMamba-Gen to generate semantically rich and meaningful synthetic data. It applies contrastive learning on patch level VMM features generated through neighborhood interactions in the latent state space, (2) OuroMamba-Quant to employ mixed-precision quantization with lightweight dynamic outlier detection during inference. In specific, we present a thresholding based outlier channel selection strategy for activations that gets updated every time-step. Extensive experiments across vision and generative tasks show that our data-free OuroMamba surpasses existing data-driven PTQ techniques, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse quantization settings. Additionally, we implement efficient GPU kernels to achieve practical latency speedup of up to 2.36x. Code and synthetic dataset are available here: https://github.com/georgia-tech-synergy-lab/ICCV-OuroMamba
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spellingShingle OuroMamba: A Data-Free Quantization Framework for Vision Mamba
Ramachandran, Akshat
Lee, Mingyu
Xu, Huan
Kundu, Souvik
Krishna, Tushar
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
We present OuroMamba, the first data-free post-training quantization (DFQ) method for vision Mamba-based models (VMMs). We identify two key challenges in enabling DFQ for VMMs, (1) VMM's recurrent state transitions restricts capturing of long-range interactions and leads to semantically weak synthetic data, (2) VMM activations exhibit dynamic outlier variations across time-steps, rendering existing static PTQ techniques ineffective. To address these challenges, OuroMamba presents a two-stage framework: (1) OuroMamba-Gen to generate semantically rich and meaningful synthetic data. It applies contrastive learning on patch level VMM features generated through neighborhood interactions in the latent state space, (2) OuroMamba-Quant to employ mixed-precision quantization with lightweight dynamic outlier detection during inference. In specific, we present a thresholding based outlier channel selection strategy for activations that gets updated every time-step. Extensive experiments across vision and generative tasks show that our data-free OuroMamba surpasses existing data-driven PTQ techniques, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse quantization settings. Additionally, we implement efficient GPU kernels to achieve practical latency speedup of up to 2.36x. Code and synthetic dataset are available here: https://github.com/georgia-tech-synergy-lab/ICCV-OuroMamba
title OuroMamba: A Data-Free Quantization Framework for Vision Mamba
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10959