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FP8: Efficient model inference with 8-bit floating point numbers
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Pankaj Gupta, Philip Kiely
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1,021
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Language
English
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2
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Summary
FP8 is an 8-bit floating point data format that enables more efficient model inference with larger dynamic range compared to INT8, making it suitable for quantizing LLMs' activations and offering better performance improvements without significant degradation of output quality.
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