@charles_irl: This block quant visualizer is another page in our LLM Engineer's Almanac -- a one-stop shop for engineers looking to o…
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A new page in the LLM Engineer's Almanac provides a block quant visualizer to help engineers understand quantization formats for owning their LLM inference.
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This block quant visualizer is another page in our LLM Engineer’s Almanac – a one-stop shop for engineers looking to own their inference. It joins another page for intuition-building with fp quants, focused on the binary representations. https://modal.com/llm-almanac/quant-formats/e4::0x4c…
LLM Engineer’s Almanac - Quant Formats
Source: https://modal.com/llm-almanac/quant-formats/e4::0x4c Value
Bit Pattern
Sign
Exponent
Significand
Sign
Exponent
Significand
Raw Hexadecimal Integer Value
Raw Decimal Integer Value
Hexadecimal Form (“%a”)
Evaluation in Base-2
(-1)0× 10210012- 01112× 1.1002
Evaluation in Base-10
1 × 22× 1.5
Exact Base-10 Value
6
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