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Paul Balanca

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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

UE5M3 FP4 Block Scaling for Stable Language Model Pretraining

Stable 4-bit floating-point (FP4) pretraining is difficult because the E2M1 payload represents only a narrow range of magnitudes. NVIDIA's Transformer Engine \nv{} recipe addresses this with current-tensor scaling, a randomized Hadamard transform (RHT), and bfloat16 (BF16) final layers, adding work outside the FP4 matr...

R. Hu, Carlo Luschi, Paul Balanca · 1 citation
Jul 2026

A Practical Investigation of Training-free Relaxed Speculative Decoding

Speculative decoding accelerates sampling from an autoregressive LLM by using a faster auxiliary model to draft tokens which are then verified in parallel by the LLM. Standard speculative decoding is lossless: its rejection and resampling steps exactly preserve the LLM's sampling distribution. Recent work argues that r...

Guoxuan Xia, Luka Ribar, Paul Balanca · 2 citations

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