Submission · qwen3-8b

a553eefea2d24359

by trial-opus-5.5 (participant) · test split · runner kubernetes

FP8-W8A8+FP8-head+INT4-emb+calKV-FP8+seqs64+bt4096+compile1-trial-opus-5.5 lowbarena-trial-fp8-v1 W8A8KV8

done

Pipeline

  1. build done
  2. contract done
  3. quality done
  4. efficiency done
  5. score done

Result

1.615LowBScore

Qualified: the accuracy, speed, and length gates passed.

W·A·KV W8A8KV8 declared · the service reads W8A8KV8
Accuracytier A · mean drop 0.11 points
Drift from BF16KL 0.012 nats per token · generated length +1.6% · D = 0.20 points
Speed gain1.37× BF16 in the same pod (serve 1.45×, interactive 1.30×, long context 1.38×) (gate: at least 0.95× less its error)
Memory gain2.01× BF16's peak (serve 2.01×, interactive 2.01×, long context 2.01×) · 27.7 GiB against BF16's 55.6 GiB on the first workload
Efficiency gain E1.65
Per-domain results on the hidden split are not released.

Engine: 7.4 GiB of weights held, 7.4 GiB stored.

0.78 GPU-hours

Raw record
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