Summary of Integer Scale: a Free Lunch For Faster Fine-grained Quantization Of Llms, by Qingyuan Li et al.
Integer Scale: A Free Lunch for Faster Fine-grained Quantization of LLMs
by Qingyuan Li, Ran Meng, Yiduo Li, Bo Zhang, Yifan Lu, Yerui Sun, Lin Ma, Yuchen Xie
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel post-training quantization scheme called Integer Scale is introduced for large language models, addressing the inference bottleneck in current fine-grained quantization approaches while maintaining similar accuracies. This scheme requires no additional calibration or fine-tuning and can be used plug-and-play with most fine-grained quantization methods. The integration of Integer Scale results in an end-to-end speed boost of up to 1.85x over the original counterpart with comparable accuracy. Additionally, the proposed scheme resolves the quantization difficulty for Mixtral-8x7B and LLaMA-3 models with negligible performance degradation, achieving end-to-end speed boosts of 2.13x and 2.31x compared to their FP16 versions, respectively. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers has come up with a new way to make big language models run faster without sacrificing accuracy. They call it Integer Scale, and it’s like a free upgrade because you don’t need to adjust anything extra. This means you can use it with most other techniques that speed up language models. The result is a big boost in speed – up to 1.85 times faster than before – while keeping the same level of accuracy. They also tested this method on two special language models and found it worked well, even making them run 2.13 and 2.31 times faster than their original versions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Inference » Llama » Quantization
