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Low Precision Flash Attention 4: End-to-End Block-Scaled Attention for Blackwell

calendar_today September 16, 2026 person Dev (Devashish) Shankar, Darren Liu, Chunzhi Yang, Jackie (Jiaqi) Xu,Markus Hoehnerbach, Jason Xie, Santosh Mohan, Han Xu, Rich Zhu, Josh Fromm, Hongtao Yu, Max Leung, and John Bocharov domain pytorch

TL;DR We extend FlashAttention-4 [1] with MXFP8 forward and backward, reaching 2.85 PF/s forward and 2 PF/s backward on LLM shapes. On our internal shapes, FA4 MX8 reaches 2.54 PF/s…

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