Summary of Fbi-llm: Scaling Up Fully Binarized Llms From Scratch Via Autoregressive Distillation, by Liqun Ma and Mingjie Sun and Zhiqiang Shen
FBI-LLM: Scaling Up Fully Binarized LLMs from Scratch via Autoregressive Distillation
by Liqun Ma, Mingjie Sun, Zhiqiang Shen
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a novel approach to training large-scale binary language models from scratch, achieving performance comparable to full-precision models in transformer-based LLMs. The Fully BInarized Large Language Model (FBI-LLM) employs autoregressive distillation with equivalent model dimensions and training data volume as regular LLM pretraining. The authors demonstrate competitive results in terms of perplexity and task-specific effectiveness, while also analyzing the training trajectory to reveal that pretrained weights are not necessary for training binarized LLMs from scratch. This research enables a new computational framework and may facilitate the design of specialized hardware tailored for fully 1-bit LLMs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about teaching computers how to understand human language, but in a special way. Instead of using lots of different numbers to store information, it uses only two: 0 or 1. This is important because it could help make computers better and more efficient. The researchers created a new kind of computer program that can learn to understand language just like full-precision programs do, but it’s much faster and more energy-efficient. They also shared their code and data with others so they can build on this work. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoregressive » Distillation » Large language model » Perplexity » Precision » Pretraining » Transformer
