The compressed-KV scopes are fp4 records; their decode was nibble masks and
shifts plus the integer e2m1 / e4m3 decoders on GpSimd (three such chains were
the largest cost of the ratio-2 attention graph, device profile bench72). Now:
nibbles from floor(b / 16), e2m1 from a piecewise-linear map of the magnitude
code, scales through the hardware fp8 conversion. Bit-identical to the integer
decode for every byte (host check). bench73 (vllm-sonnet 512, TP=64, nextn=5):
TPOT 243.5 -> 228.6 ms, TTFT 4.84 -> 4.35 s, step 699 -> 666 ms, tokens per
step identical.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>