Robert D. Mullins

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2026

Post-training quantization (PTQ) of large language models (LLMs) reduces memory usage and accelerates inference while maintaining accuracy. However, it remains unclear how to select a quantization scheme that achieves target accuracy across different model scales. We introduce two parameters to characterize this: the quantization ratio Qr (proportion of parameters quantized to low precision) and the block size Qb (number of parameters sharing a scaling factor). Based on extensive experiments across multiple LLM families and scales, we propose a unified scaling law that predicts quantization-induced loss degradation as a function of Qr, Qb, and model size. Our scaling law reveals two practical implications: (1) larger models tolerate higher Qr, making mixed-precision increasingly effective at scale; (2) small Qb, commonly used in mixed precision, becomes unnecessary for large models, simplifying hardware design without sacrificing accuracy. These findings provide a principled recipe for quantizing LLMs in practical deployment.
Agentic LLM inference with long contexts is increasingly limited by memory bandwidth rather than compute. In this setting, SwiGLU MLP blocks, whose large weights exceed cache capacity, become a major yet under-optimized bottleneck in the Transformer architecture. We propose DeepFusionKernel, a deeply fused kernel that cuts HBM traffic and boosts cache reuse, delivering up to 13.2% speedup on H100 and 9.7% on A100 over SGLang. Integrated with SGLang and paired with a kernel scheduler, DeepFusionKernel ensures consistent accelerations across generation lengths, while remaining adaptable to diverse models, inference configurations, and hardware platforms.