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New Scaling Laws for Quantized Mixed-Precision Pretraining in AI Chips

Researchers developed a refined scaling law for quantized pretraining using mixed precision in AI accelerators, grounded in optimization theory and empirically validated. This law accounts for low-precision data types across forward and backward passes in large language model training.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-13T03:05:01+00:00 Detected 2026-10-14T21:21:27+00:00
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Researchers developed a refined scaling law for quantized pretraining using mixed precision in AI accelerators, grounded in optimization theory and empirically validated. This law accounts for low-precision data types across forward and backward passes in large language model training.

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Since scaling laws were introduced for modern LLMs (Kaplan et al., 2020), several works have extended them to account for quantization, tracking the emerging low-precision data types supported on AI accelerators. We develop a more accurate scaling law for quantized pretraining with mixed precision across the...

Accurate scaling laws help optimize AI chip performance and efficiency during pretraining, especially as low-precision computations become more common. This advancement supports better resource allocation and improved training outcomes for large language models.

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