LLM FP8 Fine-Tuning in Production: Amax Scaling, Layer Whitelists, and BF16 Fallback for Stable Convergence
FP8 reduces compute and memory for LLM fine-tuning, but poor scaling, outliers, and distributed sync issues can cause silent accuracy degradation. This guide provides a complete engineering solution with Amax monitoring, layer whitelists, BF16 fallback, dual-track evaluation, and release gates.