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Define whether half the footprint means checkpoint bytes or runtime memory. Choose a supported recipe, measure which tensors it changes, separate calibration from held-out evaluation, and validate quality and serving cost.

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Define whether half the footprint means checkpoint bytes or runtime memory. Choose a supported recipe, measure which tensors it changes, separate calibration from held-out evaluation, and validate quality and serving cost.

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Foundational
🧮 Open Weights & Serving Engines
Weight Formats: FP8 Blocks, MXFP4 and AWQDerive the storage cost of low-precision tensors, including scales, zero points and higher-precision exceptions. Distinguish formats from quantization methods, understand fused dequantization, and test whether a smaller checkpoint actually improves serving capacity without unacceptable quality loss.
Foundational
🧮 Open Weights & Serving Engines
Serving Benchmarks That Do Not LieDesign reproducible serving experiments with realistic arrivals, cache state and failure accounting. Interpret latency-qualified throughput and conditional per-rank bounds without turning optimistic kernel estimates into production capacity.
Advanced
🚀 Inference & Serving🔒 Premium
Quantization for InferenceQuantization reduces weight, activation or cache precision. Calculate payload plus scales, estimate whole-step speedup, and test task quality before choosing a smaller representation.
Core
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Numerics: FP32, BF16, FP8 and FP4Floating-point formats trade range and precision for storage and compute cost. Understand exponent bits, significand bits, scaling and accumulation before choosing a format.
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Scored on a precise memory target, method-specific calibration, measured module sensitivity, reproducible artifacts and held-out quality plus runtime validation.

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