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BBAL: A Bidirectional Block Floating Point-Based Quantisation Accelerator for Large Language Models

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Main Authors:	Han, Xiaomeng, Cheng, Yuan, Wang, Jing, Lu, Junyang, Wang, Hui, Zhang, X. x., Xu, Ning, Yang, Dawei, Jiang, Zhe
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Hardware Architecture
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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