Earlier text claimed bf16 = vLLM's own precision; that was a refuted byte-gate
draft re-surfacing. The settled finding (BITEXACT_VS_VLLM.md, proven 3 ways) is
that vLLM keeps the gated-DeltaNet TEMPORAL state in f32 (only its conv state is
bf16). So bf16 temporal is BELOW vLLM's recurrent precision, not a match; and at
equal f32 precision llama's recurrence already beats vLLM (84.6% vs 82.4% peak).
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Ranked pick-up points after the 95%-bit-exact plateau: hybrid-precision SSM state
(per-head f32/bf16 split - the bf16 error is concentrated in long-memory heads, so
a split could capture most of the +25-31% while passing the f32 KL gate), dense
CUDA-graph instability, the rms_norm->fp4 fold (flat-risk), datacenter Blackwell
sm_100 (no LPDDR5x floor), adaptive prefill budget, MoE-specific recurrence tuning.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>