Summary of Rwkv-lite: Deeply Compressed Rwkv For Resource-constrained Devices, by Wonkyo Choe et al.
RWKV-Lite: Deeply Compressed RWKV for Resource-Constrained Devices
by Wonkyo Choe, Yangfeng Ji, Felix Xiaozhu Lin
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Performance (cs.PF)
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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 recurrent neural network (RNN)-based language model family, Repentance Weighted Key Value (RWKV), has shown impressive computational efficiency for deploying large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained platforms. However, RWKV models still have high parameter counts, limiting their deployment. To address this challenge, researchers propose a suite of compression techniques tailored to the RWKV architecture. These techniques combine model architecture optimizations and post-training compression to reduce the memory footprint of RWKV models by 3.4x-5x with only minor accuracy degradation. In comparison, transformer LLMs with similar accuracy require 4x more memory footprint. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Researchers are working on making language models smaller so they can be used on devices like smartphones and robots. They found a way to make these models work better on these devices using a special type of neural network called Repentance Weighted Key Value (RWKV). However, even with this new model, there’s still a problem: it uses too much memory. To solve this, the researchers came up with ways to shrink the model while keeping its accuracy high. They were able to make the model 4 times smaller without sacrificing its ability to understand language. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Language model » Neural network » Rnn » Transformer
