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@thecoop thecoop commented Nov 28, 2025

Rather than round-to-zero, which can introduce some bias, use round-to-even instead.

This change has marginal impact on runtime performance compared to just truncation, and can be optimized later with panama and/or native operations

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@thecoop thecoop force-pushed the bfloat16-round-even branch from 8949ac9 to 4477bf7 Compare November 28, 2025 12:01
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