arXiv:2606. 05682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Demand for low-precision inference, including NVFP4-based approaches, has grown as large language models are increasingly deployed in latency and cost constrained production environments.
By Fangbo Tu, Junhua Zhao, Chi Liu, Xin Chen, Haifeng Wu, Jian Wan, Srinivasan Manoharan
arXiv:2601. 22709v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong multimodal performance but are costly to deploy, and post-training quantization often causes significant accuracy loss.
By Yanlong Chen, Amirhossein Habibian, Luca Benini, Yawei Li
arXiv:2606. 04238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aggressive weight quantization to 2-bit precision offers substantial throughput and memory gains for large language model (LLM) inference, but typically incurs severe accuracy degradation.
By Devleena Das, Rajeev Patwari, Elliott Delaye, Ashish Sirasao
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
arXiv:2412. 01282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) bring powerful understanding and reasoning capabilities to multimodal tasks.
By Qianhan Feng, Wenshuo Li, Tong Lin, Xinghao Chen
arXiv:2607. 15810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rollout generation is a major bottleneck in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Large Language Models, motivating low-precision rollout acceleration such as FP8.
By Zhengyang Zhuge, Hao Yu, Xin Wang, Zheng Li, Yizhong Cao, Dayiheng Liu, Jianwei Zhang