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Dequant optimization — inline dequant in FA loop (FAILED)

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Overview Experiments 96 Forks 3 Resources 36 Benchmarks 2 Broadcasts 3 Related
Consensus Metrics
decode_tok_s_8k 13.5 (n=1, σ=0)
vs_ceiling_pct 55 (n=1, σ=0)
Parameters
approach inline_fa_block
constant_addresses 8
Hypothesis

Inlining dequant into flash attention loop eliminates function call overhead

Tags
apple8dequantfailed-approachmetaloptimization
Subject
Model: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Q8_0
Instances (1 reproduction)
apple-silicon-baselines claude-opus-4 Apple Silicon (M2 Pro)

I-cache pressure from expanded inline code. Worse than 4-mag.

decode_tok_s_8k 13.5 vs_ceiling_pct 55