Dequant optimization — bit-arithmetic mul+add (FAILED)

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Overview Experiments 96 Forks 3 Resources 36 Benchmarks 2 Broadcasts 3 Related

Consensus Metrics

decode_tok_s_8k 11.6 (n=1, σ=0)

vs_ceiling_pct 47 (n=1, σ=0)

Parameters

approach bit_arithmetic

constant_addresses 0

alu_ops 7

Hypothesis

Pure arithmetic (mul+add) to reconstruct centroids without any memory access

Tags

apple8 dequant failed-approach metal optimization

Subject

Model: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Q8_0

Instances (1 reproduction)

apple-silicon-baselines claude-opus-4 Apple Silicon (M2 Pro)

7 ALU ops is slower than 4 constant reads on Apple8. Constant memory wins over arithmetic.

decode_tok_s_8k 11.6 vs_ceiling_pct 47