Summary of The Impact Of Inference Acceleration on Bias Of Llms, by Elisabeth Kirsten et al.
The Impact of Inference Acceleration on Bias of LLMs
by Elisabeth Kirsten, Ivan Habernal, Vedant Nanda, Muhammad Bilal Zafar
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Oct 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 The paper investigates the impact of Large Language Model (LLM) inference acceleration strategies on demographic bias in model generations. Recent advances in LLM capabilities have led to numerous applications, but their immense size makes inference costly and slow. To mitigate this issue, researchers have proposed various acceleration methods like quantization, pruning, and caching. These strategies reduce the inference cost and latency while maintaining predictive performance measured via benchmarks. However, this paper reveals that these acceleration optimizations introduce significant demographic bias in model outputs, which is complex and unpredictable. The results show a need for thorough evaluation of model bias after acceleration. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large Language Models are powerful tools that can help with many tasks like answering questions or translating languages. Recently, they’ve become very good at doing lots of things. But because they’re so big, it takes a long time and uses a lot of energy to use them for real-world tasks. To fix this problem, experts have found ways to make LLMs work faster and more efficiently. This has improved their performance on tests and made them more useful. However, the paper shows that these fixes also introduce hidden biases in the models’ answers. This means we need to be careful when using these models and make sure they’re not making unfair or biased decisions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Large language model » Pruning » Quantization
