Zhenyu Guo

Author directory

2026

Quantization has been widely adopted in LLM training and inference to reduce cost and improve efficiency. However, low-bit quantization of the attention module often introduces large errors at very low bit-widths, causing performance degradation. Existing methods mainly rely on smoothing techniques to handle outliers, while we propose a hybrid quantization design to better balance accuracy and efficiency. Specifically, we propose **HyQuant**, an efficient hybrid quantization framework for LLM attention. HyQuant quantizes most attention states into low-bit formats while retaining a small set of vertical-line tokens and local-window states in high precision. These accuracy-critical regions are selected using lightweight vertical-line-aware attention-pattern signals, reducing quantization error with limited overhead. In the Prefill stage, HyQuant uses a hybrid-precision quantized attention operator that preserves vertical-line tokens and a local sliding window in full precision while quantizing the remaining context. In the Decode stage, HyQuant applies the same principle to KV-cache compression and fuses KV dequantization with attention computation to improve memory and hardware efficiency. Across diverse tasks, models, and datasets, HyQuant maintains nearly lossless accuracy with a simple design, demonstrating the efficiency and practical feasibility of hybrid quantization for LLM attention.

2025

Decision-making tasks have highlighted fundamental challenges in grounding decisions within real-world contexts. Traditional decision knowledge utilization methods often struggle to effectively integrate structured decision constraints, limiting their ability to decompose high-level tasks, maintain logical consistency, and adapt to dynamic environments. To bridge this gap, we introduce StructuThink, a knowledge-structured reasoning framework that enhances LLM-based agents with explicit decision constraints. Specifically, we propose the Task Transition Knowledge Graph (TTKG) that learning decision knowledge in embodied scenarios. Leveraging this knowledge, we propose the StructuThink framework, comprising a subtask chain constructor for grounding natural language instructions and a constraint-based executor for adaptive and consistent decision-making. We validate StructuThink across multiple benchmarks, including ALFWorld and WebShop, where it achieves higher task success rates (improving by up to 7%) and more efficient action sequences (requiring up to 15% fewer steps) than baseline methods. Our approach enables LLMs to more effectively ground decision-making in domain-specific scenarios, enhancing both interpretability and reliability, thus paving the way for more reliable and adaptable decision-making systems.