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Motivation

When performing AWQ and SmoothQuant quantization on Ascend devices, using the float16 data type leads to precision errors in certain operators. Our investigation shows that using bfloat16 resolves these precision anomalies and ensures correct quantization results.

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@jinminxi104 jinminxi104 marked this pull request as draft January 20, 2026 02:19
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