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Re:Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Pre... by amelius on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:17AM (#48295652)
Sounds like a side channel attack waiting to happen.
Re:Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Pre... by unglaublich on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:50AM (#48296085)
So I guess we'll all be applying a random rotation to our matrices now to obscure their contents, like TurboQuant does. https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/#rotation
Re:Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Pre... by buildbot on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:06PM (#48296327)
Not that it super matters, but random hadamards for quantization have been a thing since way before turboquant.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00456

Re:Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Pre... by DiabloD3 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:13PM (#48299037)
Which llama.cpp now does.