Summary of Quantmoe-bench: Examining Post-training Quantization For Mixture-of-experts, by Pingzhi Li et al.
QuantMoE-Bench: Examining Post-Training Quantization for Mixture-of-Experts
by Pingzhi Li, Xiaolong Jin, Zhen Tan, Yu Cheng, Tianlong Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary MoE is a promising way to scale up large language models’ learning capacity. It increases parameters while keeping FLOPs nearly constant during inference through sparse activation. However, it still suffers from significant memory overheads due to the vast parameter size, necessitating model compression techniques like post-training quantization. This approach can lead to suboptimal performance if a fixed quantization precision is used for the entire MoE model. To address this, researchers explored fine-grained precision setups for MoE quantization, considering the sparse structure and different activation patterns in MoE models. The study reveals critical principles where different MoE structures require varying numbers of bits for effective quantization. |
Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MoE is a way to make big language models smarter. It helps them learn faster by adding more information while keeping the amount of work they do during testing the same. But this makes it hard to store and use the model because it’s so big. One solution is to shrink the model without losing its abilities. This paper looks at how to do this for MoE models, which have special ways of working that make them useful. The researchers found out that different parts of the model need different levels of detail to work well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Model compression » Precision » Quantization