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Adaptive Compression
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Description
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:
- Could you provide more details on the implementation of Adaptive Compression in Transformer Engine?
- Specifically, how is sparsity identified and exploited dynamically?
- 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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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation, machine-learning, performance
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100