CITATION.cff

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title: "RCO: Riemannian Constrained Optimization for LLM Compression"
abstract: >-
  Reference implementation of the budget manifold and the RCO optimizer
  (tangent projection, monotonic retraction, vector transport),
  applied to mixed-precision quantization and MoE expert pruning of
  large language models.
authors:
  - family-names: Helcig
    given-names: Michael
    affiliation: ETH Zurich
  - family-names: Alistarh
    given-names: Dan
    affiliation: IST Austria
version: "0.1.0"
date-released: "2026-05-15"
repository-code: "https://github.com/IST-DASLab/RCO"
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "Model Compression with Exact Budget Constraints via Riemannian Manifolds"
  authors:
    - family-names: Helcig
      given-names: Michael
      affiliation: ETH Zurich
    - family-names: Alistarh
      given-names: Dan
      affiliation: IST Austria
  year: 2026
  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00649"