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pith:RVMXILUT

pith:2025:RVMXILUTMK7CN6VNE44QCZ2K7O

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Improving Block-Wise LLM Quantization by 4-bit Block-Wise Optimal Float (BOF4): Analysis and Variations

Patrick Blumenberg, Thomas Graave, Tim Fingscheidt

arxiv:2505.06653 v1 · 2025-05-10 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:01:13.760538Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d59742e9362be26faad273901674afba21a4c01d30c43f44c742ddd97973728

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.06653 · arxiv_version: 2505.06653v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.06653 · pith_short_12: RVMXILUTMK7C · pith_short_16: RVMXILUTMK7CN6VN · pith_short_8: RVMXILUT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RVMXILUTMK7CN6VNE44QCZ2K7O \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8d59742e9362be26faad273901674afba21a4c01d30c43f44c742ddd97973728

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-10T14:00:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9950eb31b599b135e69fa156a68a5f5fd82f847ce91fd8401eac751493889e87"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2505.06653",
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  }
}