I agree that section is a bit confusing. The takeaway is that there are two 4bit formats they're using for weight compression E3M0 and E2M1.
Yeah that section isn't very clear. Also, the article doesn't seem to explain what NF4/NormalFloat is at all? I would guess it has something to do with the position of the value on a gaussian, but that's just a guess
Are there any decent but easily digest summaries of FP4? The best I can find is a giant paper. I do not understand why the linked entry gave great summaries of the larger FP types but then waves hand / fog about FP4.