Summary
OSFP4 is a new quantization method for NVFP4 datatype that uses optimized diagonal smoothing and block scales to maintain accuracy in large language model inference. It enables compact storage and efficient tensor-core acceleration.
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What happened
NVFP4 is an attractive datatype for large language model (LLM) inference, offering compact storage and native tensor-core acceleration. However, preserving accuracy using NVFP4 requires careful quantization. In this work we develop a novel quantization scheme called Optimized Smoothing and Scaling for NVFP4...
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