3 papers
cs.LG2026
Activation Outliers Matter: Robust Recovery for Quantized Multimodal LLMs
Tanzila Rahman, Mehran Taghian Jazi, Yunke Peng +10
Low-bit quantization offers a promising avenue for reducing the computational and memory demands of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Recent hardware support for low-precis…
cs.LG2026
HiFloat4 Format for Language Model Pre-training on Ascend NPUs
Mehran Taghian, Yunke Peng, Xing Huang +22
Large foundation models have become central to modern machine learning, with performance scaling predictably with model size and data. However, training and deploying such models i…
astro-ph.HE2025
Spectral Hardening Reveals Afterglow Emergence in Long-Duration Fast X-ray Transients: A Case Study of GRB 250404A/EP250404a
Yi-Han Iris Yin, Yuan Fang, Bin-Bin Zhang +56
The prompt emission and afterglow phases of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been extensively studied, yet the transition between these two phases remains inadequately characterized du…