The tricky part: naïvely casting BF16 group scales to FP8 dropped the quality. Our fix: quantize scales per-channel (outer vector scaling) + rescale by 1/8 to avoid FP8 clipping. Result: >99.5% of W4A16 accuracy recovered on Command A & Cohere MoE. Paired with a CUTLASS

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