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HiFloat4 Format for Language Model Pre-training on Ascend NPUs
Mehran Taghian, Yunke Peng, Xing Huang +22
Training large foundation models at low numerical precision is one of the most promising directions for reducing the compute and memory cost of modern AI. Recent 4-bit floating-poi…
cs.LG2026
HiFloat4 Format for Language Model Inference
Yuanyong Luo, Jing Huang, Yu Cheng +19
This paper introduces HiFloat4 (HiF4), a block floating-point data format tailored for deep learning. Each HiF4 unit packs 64 4-bit elements with 32 bits of shared scaling metadata…