ctest-Qwen3-8B-speculator.eagle3-fp8ablation-fp8

ctest: Qwen3-8B EAGLE-3 speculator — FP8 hidden-states ablation (fp8)

Test checkpoint — not a production release. Trained to validate the FP8-quantized hidden-states transfer backend added in vllm-project/speculators#1028 (draft, reviving #491).

• Verifier: Qwen/Qwen3-8B
• Algorithm: eagle3
• Hidden-states precision during training: fp8 (new FP8 backend, per-token float8_e4m3fn quantization)
• Training data: 5K magpie + 5K ultrachat samples from inference-optimization/Dataset-Qwen3-235B-Instruct

This is one of a matched pair (...-fp8ablation-bf16 / ...-fp8ablation-fp8) trained identically except for the hidden-states transfer precision, to isolate the effect of FP8 quantization on speculator quality. See the sibling repo for the other precision.

Validation metrics (final epoch)

• loss_0_epoch: 1.064873
• full_acc_0_epoch: 0.694916
• cond_acc_0_epoch: 0.694916
• loss_1_epoch: 1.383549
• full_acc_1_epoch: 0.468324
• cond_acc_1_epoch: 0.673929
• loss_2_epoch: 1.583793
• full_acc_2_epoch: 0.312937
• cond_acc_2_epoch: 0.668200
• loss_epoch: 4.032217

guidellm serving eval

See acceptance.csv in this repo for the full per-subset guidellm breakdown (9 subset rows).

Full ablation writeup, all 6 checkpoints' results, exact commands, and code: see the results package referenced from PR #1028.