GeoFP8: Geometry-Aware FP8 Gradient Compression for Distributed LLM Training

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arXiv:2607.07494v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gradient communication is a primary scaling bottleneck in large language model (LLM) pretraining. Communicating gradients in low-precision formats, such as FP8 and NVFP4, can significantly reduce the communication volume. Existing methods quantize gradients via linear or nonlinear mappings in Euclidean space, often degrading model performance because highly anisotropic gradients incur direction-dependent distortion. We present GeoFP8, a g