Selective Coupling of Decoupled Informative Regions: Masked Attention Alignment for Data-Free Quantization of Vision Transformers
Researchers introduce MaskAQ, a novel data-free quantization technique for Vision Transformers that identifies and aligns informative image regions to improve model compression without requiring access to real training data. The approach addresses distribution mismatches in synthetic data generation, enabling more efficient deployment of ViT models while maintaining security and privacy.