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arxiv: 2606.26587 · v1 · pith:HO6FZ33Gnew · submitted 2026-06-25 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

SharQ: Bridging Activation Sparsity and FP4 Quantization for LLM Inference

Haoqian Meng , Yilun Luo , Yafei Zhao , Wenyuan Liu , Huaqing Zheng , Xindian Ma , Peng Zhang This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.AI
keywords activation sparsityFP4 quantizationLLM inferencesparse-dense decompositiontraining-free methodN:M sparsityoutlier handling
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SharQ recovers 43-63 percent of the FP4 accuracy gap on LLMs by splitting activations into a quantized sparse backbone and a compensating dense residual

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a training-free method called SharQ that pairs N:M sparsity with FP4 quantization for LLM activations. Activations contain input-dependent outliers that make direct FP4 scaling inaccurate, while applying sparsity masks alone loses moderate values and adds error. SharQ creates an adaptive mask to isolate an outlier-heavy sparse backbone, quantizes that backbone to FP4, then builds a dense residual measured against the already-quantized backbone values. Two FP4 matrix multiplies—one sparse for the backbone and one dense for correction—share the same weights but use different scales, with all preparation done in one fused kernel. If the approach holds, models could run at lower precision and higher speed on supported hardware without any retraining or calibration data.

Core claim

For each activation tensor, SharQ generates an input-adaptive N:M mask to extract an outlier-dominated sparse backbone, quantizes the backbone to FP4, and defines a dense residual relative to the quantized sparse backbone rather than the original values. A sparse FP4 GEMM handles the backbone while a dense FP4 GEMM compensates for both mask loss and quantization error; the paths share one FP4 weight payload with path-specific scales, and a fused preparation kernel absorbs mask generation, residual construction, and normalization.

What carries the argument

online sparse-dense decomposition that defines the dense residual relative to the quantized sparse backbone instead of the unquantized sparse values

If this is right

  • The method recovers 43-63 percent of the accuracy gap between NVFP4 and FP16 across language and vision-language tasks on the tested models
  • It delivers 2.2-2.4 times lower latency than FP16 and 1.2-1.4 times higher throughput than FP8 on RTX 5090 hardware
  • The same decomposition works without changes across NVFP4, HiF4, and MXFP4 formats
  • When combined with other attention optimizations it yields up to 1.58 times speedup on video generation workloads

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The residual-against-quantized-values choice may generalize to other bit widths or sparsity ratios where direct masking hurts scale factors
  • The fused kernel pattern could reduce overhead in pipelines that already combine sparsity with low-precision compute
  • Testing the same split on training-time activations might reveal whether the decomposition reduces outlier sensitivity earlier in the pipeline

Load-bearing premise

The online generation of the input-adaptive N:M mask, construction of the dense residual relative to the quantized sparse backbone, and fused preparation kernel can be performed with negligible overhead and without model-specific tuning on the evaluated hardware and model families.

What would settle it

Measuring accuracy recovery and latency on the same models after disabling the fused kernel or after computing the residual against unquantized sparse values instead would show whether the claimed recovery range and speed gains depend on those exact steps.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.26587 by Haoqian Meng, Huaqing Zheng, Peng Zhang, Wenyuan Liu, Xindian Ma, Yafei Zhao, Yilun Luo.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of SharQ. SharQ extracts an outlier-dominated N:M sparse backbone, constructs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Kernel-level NVFP4 dataflow of SharQ. The fused activation preparation kernel performs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: End-to-end serving efficiency of SharQ on RTX 5090 with vLLM (Llama-3.1-8B, batch [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) Normalized prefill latency breakdown on Llama-3.1-8B. NVFP4 serves as the 100% [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Low-bit floating-point formats and semi-structured sparsity are increasingly supported by modern accelerators, yet combining them for LLM activation compression remains challenging: activations contain input-dependent outliers that dominate block scales in FP4 quantization, and directly applying N:M sparsity masks discards moderate values, coupling sparsification loss with quantization error. We introduce SharQ, a training-free inference method that bridges activation sparsity and FP4 quantization through an online sparse--dense decomposition. For each activation tensor, SharQ generates an input-adaptive N:M mask to extract an outlier-dominated sparse backbone, quantizes it to FP4, and defines a dense residual relative to the quantized sparse backbone rather than the unquantized sparse values. A sparse FP4 GEMM processes the backbone while a dense FP4 GEMM compensates for both mask-induced activation loss and sparse-path quantization error. The two paths share a single FP4 weight payload with path-specific scale views, and a fused preparation kernel absorbs mask generation, residual construction, and layer normalization into one operator. SharQ requires no calibration data, retraining, or model-specific tuning. Evaluated on Llama-3.1-8B, Qwen2.5-7B, Qwen3-30B-A3B, and Qwen3-VL-8B, SharQ recovers 43--63% of the NVFP4-to-FP16 accuracy gap across language and vision-language tasks, and generalizes across NVFP4, HiF4, and MXFP4 formats. On an RTX 5090, SharQ delivers 2.2--2.4$\times$ latency reduction over FP16 and 1.2--1.4$\times$ throughput improvement over FP8 in language model serving, and up to 1.58$\times$ speedup on Wan2.2-T2V-A14B video generation when combined with SageAttention. Our code is available at https://github.com/actypedef/SharQ.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces SharQ, a training-free method for LLM inference that combines N:M activation sparsity with FP4 quantization via an online input-adaptive sparse-dense decomposition: an N:M mask extracts an outlier-dominated sparse backbone quantized to FP4, while a dense residual (defined relative to the quantized sparse values) compensates mask and quantization errors using a second FP4 GEMM path. The two paths share a single FP4 weight payload with path-specific scales; a fused preparation kernel handles mask generation, residual construction, and layer norm. Evaluated on Llama-3.1-8B, Qwen2.5-7B, Qwen3-30B-A3B, and Qwen3-VL-8B, it recovers 43-63% of the NVFP4-to-FP16 accuracy gap across tasks and reports 2.2-2.4× latency reduction vs FP16 (plus 1.2-1.4× throughput vs FP8) on RTX 5090, with generalization to other FP4 formats and up to 1.58× speedup on video generation when combined with SageAttention.

Significance. If the overhead of the input-adaptive mask generation and fused kernel is truly negligible without model-specific tuning, and the accuracy recovery holds under the residual construction, SharQ would provide a practical way to exploit emerging hardware support for semi-structured sparsity and FP4 without retraining or calibration, improving the efficiency-accuracy frontier for both language and multimodal models.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4.3 and §5.3] §4.3 and §5.3 (latency evaluation): The 2.2-2.4× latency reduction claim over FP16 rests on the fused preparation kernel absorbing mask generation and residual construction with negligible cost, yet no per-component timing breakdown (e.g., mask selection time vs. the two GEMM paths) or scaling analysis with activation size is provided; without this, the net speedup cannot be verified against the stress-test concern that input-dependent N:M selection may not remain negligible.
  2. [§4.2] §4.2 (residual definition): The dense residual is constructed relative to the quantized sparse backbone rather than the unquantized sparse values, which is presented as compensating both mask loss and sparse-path quantization error, but no error analysis or bound is given showing why this choice yields the reported 43-63% gap recovery rather than simply adding a second quantization error term.
  3. [Table 2 and §5.1] Table 2 and §5.1 (ablation on mask adaptivity): The accuracy numbers are reported only for the full SharQ method; an ablation isolating the contribution of the input-adaptive N:M mask versus a static mask (or versus direct N:M on unquantized activations) is absent, making it impossible to confirm that adaptivity is load-bearing for the claimed recovery percentages.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract and §1 cite NVFP4, HiF4, and MXFP4 but the experimental tables do not explicitly label which format was used for each row; adding a column or footnote would improve clarity.
  2. Figure 3 (kernel diagram) uses abbreviations (e.g., 'SP-GEMM', 'DP-GEMM') without an accompanying legend in the caption; expanding the caption would aid readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments and the recommendation for major revision. We address each major point below, agreeing where additional evidence or clarification is needed and outlining the planned revisions.

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  1. Referee: [§4.3 and §5.3] §4.3 and §5.3 (latency evaluation): The 2.2-2.4× latency reduction claim over FP16 rests on the fused preparation kernel absorbing mask generation and residual construction with negligible cost, yet no per-component timing breakdown (e.g., mask selection time vs. the two GEMM paths) or scaling analysis with activation size is provided; without this, the net speedup cannot be verified against the stress-test concern that input-dependent N:M selection may not remain negligible.

    Authors: We agree that a per-component timing breakdown and scaling analysis would strengthen verification of the net speedup. In the revised version we will add detailed measurements separating mask generation, residual construction, and the two GEMM paths, together with scaling behavior across activation sizes on the evaluated hardware. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (residual definition): The dense residual is constructed relative to the quantized sparse backbone rather than the unquantized sparse values, which is presented as compensating both mask loss and sparse-path quantization error, but no error analysis or bound is given showing why this choice yields the reported 43-63% gap recovery rather than simply adding a second quantization error term.

    Authors: The residual is defined after quantization so that the dense path directly offsets the combined mask and quantization error present in the sparse FP4 output. While the manuscript relies on empirical recovery rather than a formal bound, we will expand §4.2 with a short discussion of the motivation and why the chosen construction avoids simply accumulating an independent second quantization term. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Table 2 and §5.1] Table 2 and §5.1 (ablation on mask adaptivity): The accuracy numbers are reported only for the full SharQ method; an ablation isolating the contribution of the input-adaptive N:M mask versus a static mask (or versus direct N:M on unquantized activations) is absent, making it impossible to confirm that adaptivity is load-bearing for the claimed recovery percentages.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of isolating the adaptivity contribution. We will add the requested ablation (adaptive N:M versus static mask and versus direct N:M on unquantized activations) to Table 2 or a new table in §5.1 of the revised manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical algorithmic method with no derivations or fitted predictions

full rationale

The paper describes a training-free inference algorithm (online N:M mask generation, sparse-dense decomposition, fused kernel) evaluated empirically on specific models and hardware. No mathematical derivation chain, first-principles predictions, parameter fitting, or self-citation load-bearing steps are present in the provided text. All performance claims (accuracy gap recovery, latency reductions) are direct experimental measurements rather than reductions to inputs by construction. This matches the default expectation of no significant circularity for non-derivational papers.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The contribution is an algorithmic inference procedure rather than a mathematical derivation; no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated in the abstract.

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