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New UFP4 recipe tackles shrinkage bias in LLM FP4 pretraining

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A new research paper introduces UFP4, a uniform 4-bit training recipe designed to address shrinkage bias in large language model pretraining. The study identifies that current non-uniform FP4 formats, like E2M1 used in NVIDIA Blackwell/Rubin and AMD MI350 GPUs, introduce systematic rounding errors. UFP4, by contrast, utilizes uniform grids (E1M2/INT4) to improve quantization quality and demonstrates lower loss degradation on various model sizes compared to existing E2M1-based methods. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Qian Zhao, Kunlong Chen, Changxin Tian, Zhonghui Jiang, Haitao Zhang, Chaofan Yu, Peijie Jiang, Mingliang Gong, Jia Liu, Ziqi Liu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou ·

    Rethinking Shrinkage Bias in LLM FP4 Pretraining: Geometric Origin, Systemic Impact, and UFP4 Recipe

    arXiv:2606.20381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FP4 training promises substantial reductions in memory and computation cost for LLM pretraining, yet current FP4 hardware paths and recipes, including NVIDIA Blackwell/Rubin-class systems and AMD MI350-series GPUs, remain centered o…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jun Zhou ·

    Rethinking Shrinkage Bias in LLM FP4 Pretraining: Geometric Origin, Systemic Impact, and UFP4 Recipe

    FP4 training promises substantial reductions in memory and computation cost for LLM pretraining, yet current FP4 hardware paths and recipes, including NVIDIA Blackwell/Rubin-class systems and AMD MI350-series GPUs, remain centered on E2M1 data elements. In this study, we identify…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Rethinking Shrinkage Bias in LLM FP4 Pretraining: Geometric Origin, Systemic Impact, and UFP4 Recipe

    Uniform 4-bit training with RHT-based quantization outperforms E2M1-based methods by eliminating shrinkage bias and improving training stability across large language model architectures.

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