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

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...

By 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, John Bocharov, Alan PurvisPyTorch Blog
Low Precision Flash Attention 4: End-to-End Block-Scaled Attention for Blackwell

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Originally published by PyTorch Blog on Sep 16, 2026.

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