Scalar rounding decisions interact through matrix multiplication.
We study deterministic product-aware rounding after scales, clipping bounds, and grids are fixed, with each active scalar choosing between adjacent levels.
For dynamic activation rounding, null-space reduction preserves the relaxed product while leaving at most $r$ fractional decisions, where $r$ is the rank of the active gap-weighted weight block.
Conditional-expectation completion gives a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm with squared product error at most $ \mathrm{OPT}_{\mathrm{dyn}}+rν_{\max}^2/4$, where $\mathrm{OPT}_{\mathrm{dyn}}$ is the best admissible error and $ν_{\max}$ is the largest row norm of that block.
For reusable static weights, the exact expected product-loss metric is the uncentered input second moment with fixed output bias; free bias recalibration yields the centered covariance.
Exact optimization is NP-hard even at rank one.
In balanced blocks with $K=1024$ and $r=16$, conditional-expectation completion attains a dither-normalized median error of $0.010$, compared with $0.899$ for round-to-nearest.
Clipping-aware initialization reduces median normalized error by a factor of $43.4$ at ten-percent clipping.
Held-out Digits experiments show that retaining the input mean or correcting the output bias improves median product error over round-to-nearest in all four tested bit-width and calibration-size settings.