4 papers
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…
HiFloat4 Format for End-To-End Reinforcement Learning Post-Training of Large Language Models
Hei Yi Mak, Shadan Golestan, Hoang Le +10
We present, to our knowledge, the first end-to-end FP4 RL post-training, in which both the rollout and training policies, including their forward and backward passes, operate at 4-…
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…
Low-Resource NMT: A Case Study on the Written and Spoken Languages in Hong Kong
Hei Yi Mak, Tan Lee
The majority of inhabitants in Hong Kong are able to read and write in standard Chinese but use Cantonese as the primary spoken language in daily life. Spoken Cantonese can be tran…