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Exploring MX-Like Tensor Core Designs for Efficient LLM Inference

Block-scaled quantization formats like OCP Microscaling (MX) and NVFP4 are widely used for efficient LLM inference, but their design space and accuracy-silicon tradeoffs have not been fully explored. This study investigates hardware-software co-design to identify Pareto-optimal configurations for L...

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-19T09:42:56+00:00 Detected 2026-10-20T09:22:34+00:00
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Block-scaled quantization formats like OCP Microscaling (MX) and NVFP4 are widely used for efficient LLM inference, but their design space and accuracy-silicon tradeoffs have not been fully explored. This study investigates hardware-software co-design to identify Pareto-optimal configurations for L...

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Block-scaled quantization formats such as OCP Microscaling (MX) and NVFP4 have been widely adopted as efficient data formats for LLM inference. However, the design space of these formats spanned by shared scale, weight, and activation format combinations has not been systematically explored, and the joint...

Understanding the tradeoffs between accuracy and silicon efficiency in quantization formats can guide better hardware designs for LLM inference. This can lead to more efficient and effective deployment of large language models in practical applications.

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