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FPTalks 2026

The leading edge of floating-point research

The floating-point research community.
Online. August 6, 2026.

FPTalks 2026 was held online on August 6, 2026 on Zoom. Talks were ten minutes long, followed by audience questions. Talk recordings are available on Youtube.

Welcome (Recording)

Session 1

Correctly rounded functions: from pen-and-paper to formal proof

Wonyeol Lee (POSTECH) & Paul Zimmermann (INRIA Nancy)

SELTZO: Geometric Analysis of Floating-Point Arithmetic

David K. Zhang, Cerebras Systems

Golden models for numerical datapath

Artem Yadrov, University of Utah

Odd but Error-Free FastTwoSum

Sehyeok Park, Rutgers University

Break

Session 2

IEEE P3109 Update

Andrew Fitzgibbon, Graphcore

Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4

Paul Gibbons, NVIDIA

Direction-Preserving Number Representations

Bardia Zadeh, Imperial College London

Range Analysis of Neural Surfaces

Nick Sharp, NVIDIA

Break

Session 3

Grading the BLAS

Jim Demmel, UC Berkeley

High Accuracy with Low Precision

Erin Carson, Charles University

Adjoints for Roundoff Sensitivity Analysis

David Bindel, Cornell

Thinking Fast and Correct: Automated Rewriting of Numerical Code through Compiler Augmentation

William S. Moses, UIUC

Conclusion (Recording)

The event is free and open to all. For more information, please see the FPTalks community and check out past recordings from: