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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a Local-Hessian NVFP4 announcement. It documents the algorithm, results, GPTQ composition, usage, limitations, and references. It also adds announcement indexing and supporting CSS. ChangesLocal-Hessian announcement
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In `@docs/source/announcements/local-hessian.rst`:
- Line 28: Update the prose in the local Hessian announcement: complete the
sentence describing block scale, correct the spelling and grammar in the
criteria/exhaustive evaluation passage, and fix the subject-verb agreement and
typo in the comparison passage. Preserve the technical meaning while ensuring
all published sentences are complete and grammatically correct.
- Line 237: Update the --recipe path in the local Hessian announcement to
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the published text.
Line 28 has an incomplete phrase. Lines 31-37 contain spelling and grammar errors, including critieria, exhuastive, and only considers. Line 96 contains we compares and dor.
Correct these sentences before publication.
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In `@docs/source/announcements/local-hessian.rst` at line 28, Update the prose in
the local Hessian announcement: complete the sentence describing block scale,
correct the spelling and grammar in the criteria/exhaustive evaluation passage,
and fix the subject-verb agreement and typo in the comparison passage. Preserve
the technical meaning while ensuring all published sentences are complete and
grammatically correct.
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Signed-off-by: realAsma <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
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Add a grouped bar chart of the Qwen3.8-27B W4A4 candidate scores as Figure 1, and rework the surrounding prose: - Rewrite the derivation with labeled, numbered equations and notation consistent with the appendix. - Add "How to Quantize with Local-Hessian NVFP4" with the config example and the end-to-end hf_ptq command. - Replace the deployment-contract section with a shorter one on zero deployment overhead, and condense Results and Next steps. - Fix the Four-over-six citation to point at Cook et al. (arXiv:2512.02010) and drop the now-unused references. - Style equation numbers inline and shrink the table note. Signed-off-by: realAsma <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
Cut the "How Local Hessian Works" section from 61 to 45 lines without losing either equation: - Fold the linear-layer and quantization definitions into prose; only the output-error and per-block objectives keep display math. - Drop the per-block subsection heading and the restated symbol declarations that the equations already show. - State what the Hessian does instead of that it carries the objective, and give its shape. - Index blocks with b, and render the output-error equation on two aligned lines. Signed-off-by: realAsma <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
Figure 1 now carries the aggregate the blog argues from: a boxed summary of mean(min(candidate - BF16, 0)) for each scale rule, placed above the plot at the right so it clears the bars. The script derives it from the plotted series rather than hardcoding, so it cannot drift from the bars if the benchmark set changes. The value is 2.31 / 0.77 over the five benchmarks shown, not the 2.14 / 0.78 in the team workbook, which averages a different set (includes AA-LCR, excludes SciCode). Matching the figure keeps it verifiable from the chart. Also rewords the announcements landing-page card to promise the method and the comparison, updating data-summary and the visible text together so tag filtering and display stay in sync. Signed-off-by: realAsma <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
- Enable layerwise calibration in the config example, with get_qdq_activations_from_prev_layer, and explain the sequence in a note: each layer is calibrated, its outputs collected with fake quantization, and those activations feed the next layer. - Move the batch-size-1 rationale into a second note, generalized to any calibration that depends on activation statistics. - Renumber references by first citation: Four-over-six is [2], GPTQ [3]. - Remove the closing "Bitter Lesson" section. Signed-off-by: realAsma <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
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In `@docs/source/announcements/local-hessian.rst`:
- Around line 55-62: Update the error definition and corresponding Hessian
statements in the local Hessian derivation to use consistent scaling: either
define a half-scaled objective whose Hessian is XXᵀ, or include the missing 1/N
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make the error definition consistent with the Hessian.
The equation defines a sum of squared errors, not a mean squared error, because it has no 1/N factor. Also, the Hessian of ||ΔX||² with respect to Δ is 2XXᵀ, not XXᵀ. Either define a half-scaled objective, or update the MSE and Hessian statements. The omitted constants do not change the minimizing scale, but the current derivation is mathematically inaccurate.
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In `@docs/source/announcements/local-hessian.rst` around lines 55 - 62, Update the
error definition and corresponding Hessian statements in the local Hessian
derivation to use consistent scaling: either define a half-scaled objective
whose Hessian is XXᵀ, or include the missing 1/N and factor of 2 for the stated
mean-squared-error formulation. Keep the minimizer unchanged and ensure the
equations around lh-output-error and the related lines agree mathematically.
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Figure 1 now carries "Qwen 3.8 27B NVFP4 Quantized Accuracy" so the image is self-describing when reused outside the blog. Signed-off-by: realAsma <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: documentation
Adds a Local Hessian announcement blog at
docs/source/announcements/local-hessian.rst, covering the NVFP4 per-blockweight-scale rule that minimizes output error instead of weight error.
Contents:
16x16localHessian, with numbered equations.
Four-over-six, plus composition with GPTQ.
(BF16 in gray, the two scale rules in NVIDIA greens).
end-to-end
hf_ptq.pycommand.Two supporting changes outside the blog:
docs/source/_static/announcements.css: theshibuyatheme has nospan.eqnorule, so Sphinx's defaultfloat: righton equation numberscannot share a line with MathJax's full-width display block and the number
renders above the equation. This anchors it to the right of the equation
instead, and shrinks the table-note class.
docs/source/announcements/assets/qwen3-27b-w4a4-scale-rule-accuracy.png:the Figure 1 asset.
Usage
Testing
Documentation only; no code paths change. The
.rstparses cleanly underdocutils. The rendered page has not been checked with a full
sphinx-build,so the equation-number CSS fix and the figure placement are worth an eyeball
on the built docs before merge.
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CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
Two items to settle before this is ready to publish:
--recipeexample points atmodelopt_recipes/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/nvfp4_local_hessian-fp8_attn-kv_fp8_cast.yaml,a placeholder path derived from the existing recipe naming convention. It
needs to match whatever lands in [Feature] Add Qwen3.8-27B local-Hessian PTQ recipes #2363.
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