It is argued that numerical format design is itself a first-class lever for stable FP4 training, and the first systematic study of FP4 LLM pretraining on energy-efficient Huawei Ascend NPUs is presented.
Mehran Taghian, Yun Peng, Xing Huang et al.
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Jul 2026
HiF4 is established as the enabling format for end-to-end FP4 RL post-training, and Rollout Residual Quantization (Rollout-ResQ) is established as the activation-side mechanism that makes the gap to BF16 closable.
H. Mak, Shadan Golestan, H. Le et al.
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This work proposes a VQA-based fine-tuning strategy that trains models to answer structured questions about visual content rather than relying solely on captions or simple instructions, which encourages deeper visual grounding and reasoning.
Tanzila Rahman, Renjie Liao, Leonid Sigal
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This work proposes Residual Fallback Quantization (RFQ), a lightweight activation reconstruction framework that supplements the primary ulta-low-bit activation representation with an auxiliary quantized residual pathway that improves activation fidelity while preserving the efficiency advantages of ultra-low-bit comput...
Tanzila Rahman, Mehran Taghian Jazi, Yunke Peng et al.
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