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Issue #3 ยท WeeklySep 9, 2026

Paper of the Week #3 โ€” Half the FLOPs Is Not Half the Time

One integer halves a fine-grained MoE's expert compute (arXiv 2609.04575) and its Table 5 replicates on one A100 to within a point. The paper never reports time, so I measured it: nothing in HF transformers, nothing at batch 1 in the vLLM you run today, 1.35x at batch 8. Plus the OLMoE control and the iso-cost harness control promised in issue #2.

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