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arxiv: 2604.24088 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-27 · 💻 cs.DC · cs.AI

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TACO: Efficient Communication Compression of Intermediate Tensors for Scalable Tensor-Parallel LLM Training

Man Liu , Xingchen Liu , Xingjian Tian , Bing Lu , Shengkay Lyu , Shengquan Yin , Wenjing Huang , Zheng Wei
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keywords tensor parallelismcommunication compressionFP8 quantizationLLM trainingadaptive scaling3D parallelismfused operator
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TACO compresses intermediate tensors in tensor-parallel LLM training to FP8, delivering up to 1.87X end-to-end throughput gains with near-lossless accuracy.

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

The paper addresses the communication bottleneck in tensor-parallel training of large language models, where dense near-zero intermediate tensors create both high data volume and quantization errors. It introduces TACO, a framework that reshapes tensors adaptively, applies a scale-Hadamard transform, and uses dual-scale quantization to enable stable and accurate FP8 representation. A fused operator then reduces the cost of this process and permits overlap with communication. When combined with data and pipeline parallelism into a 3D setup, the method is tested on GPT and Qwen models and shows substantial speedups while accuracy stays close to the uncompressed baseline.

Core claim

TACO is an FP8-based framework for compressing tensor-parallel intermediate tensors that first applies data-driven reshaping together with an Adaptive Scale-Hadamard Transform for high-fidelity quantization, then uses Dual-Scale Quantization to preserve numerical stability across training steps, and finally employs a highly fused compression operator to cut memory traffic and kernel overhead while allowing overlap with communication. Integrated with existing data and pipeline parallelism methods, this produces a compression-enabled 3D-parallel training system whose experiments on GPT and Qwen models report up to 1.87X end-to-end throughput improvement at near-lossless accuracy.

What carries the argument

Data-driven reshaping combined with Adaptive Scale-Hadamard Transform and Dual-Scale Quantization inside a fused FP8 compression operator applied to tensor-parallel intermediate tensors.

Load-bearing premise

The data-driven reshaping and Dual-Scale Quantization will remain stable and will not introduce convergence issues or accuracy degradation when applied across the full range of tensor distributions encountered in long training runs on diverse model architectures.

What would settle it

Run a complete training epoch of a GPT-scale or Qwen model with TACO enabled and measure final accuracy or perplexity against an otherwise identical uncompressed baseline; significant degradation or throughput gains below 1.5X would falsify the central effectiveness claim.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.24088 by Bing Lu, Dingwen Tao, Guangming Tan, Hairui Zhao, Man Liu, Shengkay Lyu, Shengquan Yin, Wenjing Huang, Xingchen Liu, Xingjian Tian, Zheng Wei.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Communication overhead and impact of quantization on view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FP8 Format Specifications: E4M3 vs. E5M2. E4M3 provides view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Data distribution characteristics of INT8 and FP8. view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Quantization errors of INT8 and FP8. error is bounded by the unit in the last place (ULP): |𝑒 FP8 𝑖 | ≤ ULP(𝑥𝑖) = 2 ⌊log2 |𝑥𝑖 | ⌋−𝑚, 𝑥𝑖 ∈ 𝑋0, (3) where 𝑚 is the mantissa width. This implies that smaller values (lower exponent) are represented with finer precision and denser quantization points, closely matching the dense, small-magnitude peak observed in TP intermediate tensors. For large-magnitude values … view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Overview of TACO. TP intermediate tensors are compressed via adaptive rescaling, the ASH transform, and dual-scale quantization, with view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Distribution of tensors before and after Hadamard-based view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of Naïve Multi-Kernel Execution vs. TACO view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Throughput comparison. Left: Performance of different view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Ablation of TACO components on convergence stability. view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Validation and test loss for baseline, standard Hadamard, view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: End-to-end training throughput (TFLOPS) under different view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Validation loss of GPT-6.7B under full 3D parallelism. view at source ↗
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Handling communication overhead in large-scale tensor-parallel training remains a critical challenge due to the dense, near-zero distributions of intermediate tensors, which exacerbate errors under frequent communication and introduce significant computational overhead during compression. To this end, we propose TACO (Tensor-parallel Adaptive COmmunication compression), a robust FP8-based framework for compressing TP intermediate tensors. First, we employ a data-driven reshaping strategy combined with an Adaptive Scale-Hadamard Transform to enable high-fidelity FP8 quantization, while its Dual-Scale Quantization mechanism ensures numerical stability throughout training. Second, we design a highly fused compression operator to reduce memory traffic and kernel launch overhead, allowing efficient overlap with communication. Finally, we integrate TACO with existing state-of-the-art methods for Data and Pipeline Parallelism to develop a compression-enabled 3D-parallel training framework. Detailed experiments on GPT models and Qwen model demonstrate up to 1.87X end-to-end throughput improvement while maintaining near-lossless accuracy, validating the effectiveness and efficiency of TACO in large-scale training.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes TACO, a FP8-based framework for compressing intermediate tensors during tensor-parallel LLM training. It introduces a data-driven reshaping strategy with Adaptive Scale-Hadamard Transform and Dual-Scale Quantization for high-fidelity compression, fused operators to minimize overhead and enable overlap with communication, and integration into a 3D-parallel (tensor, data, pipeline) training system. Experiments on GPT and Qwen models report up to 1.87X end-to-end throughput gains while claiming near-lossless accuracy preservation.

Significance. If the empirical results are robust, TACO addresses a key scalability bottleneck in large-scale distributed training by reducing communication volume for dense intermediate tensors without degrading convergence. The combination of quantization techniques tailored to tensor distributions and kernel-level optimizations could enable faster training or larger models on existing hardware clusters, with direct relevance to production LLM systems.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and experimental claims: the reported 'near-lossless accuracy' and 1.87X throughput are presented without quantitative details on the exact accuracy metric (e.g., validation perplexity delta, downstream task scores), baseline configurations, or statistical measures such as standard deviation across runs, which are load-bearing for validating the stability assertion.
  2. [Method] Description of Dual-Scale Quantization and data-driven reshaping: the manuscript states these ensure numerical stability and high-fidelity FP8 quantization but provides no ablation isolating their individual contributions or analysis of error accumulation over full training trajectories on diverse tensor distributions, undermining the robustness claim for long runs.
  3. [Experiments] Integration and end-to-end results: while throughput improvements are claimed when combined with data and pipeline parallelism, there is no explicit verification (e.g., loss curves or gradient statistics) that the compression does not introduce convergence issues across the full range of tensor shapes and training steps encountered in the GPT/Qwen experiments.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback, which highlights opportunities to strengthen the clarity of our claims and the robustness of our evaluations. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested details and analyses.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and experimental claims: the reported 'near-lossless accuracy' and 1.87X throughput are presented without quantitative details on the exact accuracy metric (e.g., validation perplexity delta, downstream task scores), baseline configurations, or statistical measures such as standard deviation across runs, which are load-bearing for validating the stability assertion.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from more precise quantitative details. In the revised manuscript, we will update the abstract to explicitly state the accuracy metrics employed (validation perplexity and downstream task scores), the baseline configurations (standard 3D-parallel training without compression), the observed perplexity deltas, and standard deviations across repeated runs. These details are already reported in the experiments section and will be summarized concisely in the abstract. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Description of Dual-Scale Quantization and data-driven reshaping: the manuscript states these ensure numerical stability and high-fidelity FP8 quantization but provides no ablation isolating their individual contributions or analysis of error accumulation over full training trajectories on diverse tensor distributions, undermining the robustness claim for long runs.

    Authors: We will add a new ablation subsection to the method and experiments sections that isolates the contributions of the data-driven reshaping strategy, Adaptive Scale-Hadamard Transform, and Dual-Scale Quantization. This will include quantitative comparisons of quantization error and end-to-end accuracy with and without each component. We will also include analysis of error accumulation by tracking per-step quantization error and its effect on gradient norms over full training trajectories for the diverse tensor distributions encountered in the GPT and Qwen models. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Integration and end-to-end results: while throughput improvements are claimed when combined with data and pipeline parallelism, there is no explicit verification (e.g., loss curves or gradient statistics) that the compression does not introduce convergence issues across the full range of tensor shapes and training steps encountered in the GPT/Qwen experiments.

    Authors: We will expand the experiments section to include explicit loss curves and gradient norm statistics for the integrated 3D-parallel (tensor + data + pipeline) training runs with TACO. These plots will cover the full range of tensor shapes and training steps from the GPT and Qwen experiments, directly comparing convergence behavior against the uncompressed baseline to confirm the absence of degradation. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in empirical engineering contribution

full rationale

The manuscript presents TACO as a practical FP8 compression framework for tensor-parallel training, relying on data-driven reshaping, Adaptive Scale-Hadamard Transform, Dual-Scale Quantization, and fused kernels. All load-bearing claims are supported by concrete throughput and accuracy measurements on GPT and Qwen models rather than any closed-form derivation or prediction. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains reduce reported results to quantities defined within the paper itself; the work is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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Abstract-only review; no explicit mathematical axioms, free parameters, or invented entities are stated. The data-driven reshaping and adaptive scales are mentioned but not quantified.

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