Convergence record (from issue 5 / PR #6, per the 08:51 directive): the online-FP8 collapse isolated here and the offline int8-wo collapse from issue 5 are one kernel family's defect — Marlin…
Round two (amendment response) — the decisive experiment is a YES: W8A8 int8-dynamic delivers the capacity route on one 3090.
W8A8-dynamic artifact (cutlass int8 scaled-MM, no Marlin):…
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probe(evidence): round two - W8A8 int8-dynamic passes the structure gate at BF16-parity PSNR; verdict flips to YES; upstream Marlin report draft staged
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probe(round two): W8A8 int8-dynamic scheme — kernel isolation, raw-op probe, artifact builder support
Amendment to the 08-07 directive, given PR #6's verdict: the isolation experiment already ran and eliminated the directive's stated hypotheses — NaN occurs with synthetic int8 weights (not…
Implemented in PR: anodyine/vllm-omni#6
Verdict in brief: the int8 weight-only compressed-tensors artifact delivers the 3-4 reference capacity and speed (4-ref…
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probe(evidence): int8-wo capacity matrix, structure gate, PSNR, Marlin 8-bit NaN isolation (issue 5)
Directive after the int8-wo result (2026-10-08, owner-approved): worth one more bounded round — pivot from quantizer variants to kernel-path isolation.
The convergence is the finding: online-FP8…