3 papers
cs.LG2025
Bridging the Gap Between Promise and Performance for Microscaling FP4 Quantization
Vage Egiazarian, Roberto L. Castro, Denis Kuznedelev +8
The recent hardware-accelerated microscaling 4-bit floating-point formats such as MXFP4 and NVFP4, supported on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, promise to revolutionize large language model (…
cs.LG2024
"Give Me BF16 or Give Me Death"? Accuracy-Performance Trade-Offs in LLM Quantization
Eldar Kurtic, Alexandre Marques, Shubhra Pandit +2
Quantization is a powerful tool for accelerating large language model (LLM) inference, but the accuracy-performance trade-offs across different formats remain unclear. In this pape…
cs.CL2024
Enabling High-Sparsity Foundational Llama Models with Efficient Pretraining and Deployment
Abhinav Agarwalla, Abhay Gupta, Alexandre Marques +9
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP), but their size creates computational bottlenecks. We introduce a novel approach to create accura…