arXiv Machine Learning

Low-Precision Training of Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities

arXiv:2505. 01043v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various domains.

arXiv AI
Jul 29

Stable FP4 Training via Transposition-Invariant Block Quantization

arXiv:2607. 24953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reducing training precision is a key lever for improving the e ciency of large language model (LLM) training, but pushing beyond FP8 to 4-bit oating point (FP4) remains challenging due to instability during optimization.

By Mehdi Rahimifar, Amin Darabi, Mehran Taghian Jazi, Xing Huang, Yao Wang, Zhijun Tu, Yufei Cui, Yunke Peng, Hongliang Li