need nvfp4 and int4 quantization

#10
by WiSFoR - opened

or at least provide us with proper parameter for quantization as native quantization using intel auto-round seems to fails due to architecture issue.

Motif Technologies org

Thanks, @WiSFoR . The auto-round failure is expected right now: Motif-3's custom modules (GDLA attention, Grouped PolyNorm, modified mHC) aren't recognized by architecture-agnostic quantization tooling, so those paths break.

Guidance for now:

  • 8-bit: use blockwise quantization (per-block scales, not per-tensor). The custom layers are sensitive enough that per-tensor 8-bit degrades them.
  • 4-bit (int4 / nvfp4): still under testing on our side, so we don't have a validated config to recommend yet. As a reference for which layers need higher precision, @avlp12 's community MLX builds (discussion #6) use mixed-bit + layerwise DWQ.

We'll share a proper quantization config once the 4-bit path is validated.

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