3 papers
cs.CL2026
Four Over Six: More Accurate NVFP4 Quantization with Adaptive Block Scaling
Jack Cook, Junxian Guo, Guangxuan Xiao +7
As large language models have grown larger, interest has grown in low-precision numerical formats such as NVFP4 as a way to improve speed and reduce memory usage. However, quantizi…
cs.IT2026
The .serva Standard: One Primitive for All AI Cost Reduced, Barriers Removed
Rachel St. Clair, John Austin Cook, Peter Sutor +2
Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure faces two compounding crises. Compute payload - the unsustainable energy and capital costs of training and inference - threatens to outp…
q-bio.NC2025
Brain-Like Processing Pathways Form in Models With Heterogeneous Experts
Jack Cook, Danyal Akarca, Rui Ponte Costa +1
The brain is made up of a vast set of heterogeneous regions that dynamically organize into pathways as a function of task demands. Examples of such pathways can be found in the int…