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Adaptive Compression

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Hello team,

I recently came across the SemiAnalysis article “Vera Rubin: Extreme Co-Design as an Evolution” (https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/vera-rubin-extreme-co-design-an-evolution) where Adaptive Compression for transformer workloads was discussed. The article mentions significant speedups (50 PFLOPS vs 35 FLOPS), but I could not find detailed information on how this is implemented in the Transformer Engine.

Now that GTC 2026 has concluded, I wanted to ask for clarification on the following:

  1. Could you provide more details on the implementation of Adaptive Compression in Transformer Engine?
  2. Specifically, how is sparsity identified and exploited dynamically?
  3. Are there any public code examples, demos, or documentation illustrating this feature?

Any guidance or pointers would be greatly appreciated, as I am interested in evaluating and experimenting with this feature for transformer model acceleration.

Thank you for your time and support.

Best regards,
Guanchen

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The issue does not identify a file, test, or entry point. Start by checking the existing Transformer Engine documentation and public examples for Adaptive Compression, then determine whether the requested implementation details are available. Done would be a maintainer-confirmed explanation with relevant examples or documentation pointers addressing dynamic sparsity and usage.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation, machine-learning, performance
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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