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Summary of Fast Inference with Kronecker-sparse Matrices, by Antoine Gonon et al.


Fast inference with Kronecker-sparse matrices

by Antoine Gonon, Léon Zheng, Pascal Carrivain, Quoc-Tung Le

First submitted to arxiv on: 23 May 2024

Categories

  • Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
  • Secondary: None

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
The paper benchmarks and improves existing GPU matrix multiplication algorithms designed for Kronecker-sparse matrices, which have gained popularity in neural networks due to their ability to preserve accuracy while reducing parameters. The authors present the first energy and time benchmarks for multiplying these matrices, highlighting scenarios where they outperform dense matrices. They also identify that specialized implementations spend a significant portion of runtime on memory rewriting operations, motivating the development of a new tiling strategy adapted to Kronecker-sparsity. This strategy reduces reads and writes between GPU memory levels, leading to a median speed-up of x1.4 and 15% energy reduction. The authors demonstrate the broader impact by applying their kernel to accelerate transformer inference.
Low GrooveSquid.com (original content) Low Difficulty Summary
This paper improves how computers do math problems for special kinds of matrices that are useful in artificial intelligence. These matrices can help make AI work better while using less memory. The researchers did a test to see how well this kind of matrix multiplication works, and found that it’s faster and uses less energy than before. They also figured out that the computer is spending too much time moving data around, so they came up with a new way to do things called “tiling” that makes it faster and more efficient.

Keywords

» Artificial intelligence  » Inference  » Transformer