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Max-based scaling
Sets a quantization scale using the block’s absolute maximum.
Also called Max-based quantization scale calibration, Max-based weight scaling.
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max-based scaling uses the block absolute maximum
evaluatedpost trainingin Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA
we experimented with max-based, MSE-based, and Four-Over-Six scaling
evaluatedpost trainingin Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA
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Other methods under inference & serving :: inference quantization.
FP8 KV-cache quantizationFP8FP4 KV-cache quantizationNVFP4 quantizationFour-Over-SixMXFP4 weight quantizationPost-training quantizationQuantizationBlock-scaled INT8 quantization with stochastic roundingFP8 E4M3 quantizationGGUFMSE-based scalingMXFP8 activation quantizationNVFP4 KV-cache quantizationNVFP4 ModelOpt re-quantizationSSM cache quantizationAWQ INT4 weight quantization (W4A16)BF16 inferenceBlock-wise E4M3 FP8 weight quantizationChannel-wise quantizationDynamic activation scalingEmbedding and KV-cache quantizationEmpirical bits-per-element budget selectionFine-grained FP8 quantization