SSR: Sparse Segment Reduction for Ternary GEMM Acceleration

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arXiv:2610.08403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) require substantial computational resources, limiting their deployment on resource-constrained hardware. Ternary LLMs mitigate these demands through weight quantization via ternary values, achieving significant compression often with 50-90% sparsity. However, existing approaches have limitations: methods optimized for ternary weights, such as BitNet, redundant segment reduction (RSR), and its improved version RSR++, do