Summary of Gqsa: Group Quantization and Sparsity For Accelerating Large Language Model Inference, by Chao Zeng et al.
GQSA: Group Quantization and Sparsity for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
by Chao Zeng, Songwei Liu, Shu Yang, Fangmin Chen, Xing Mei, Lean Fu
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 presents a novel compression technique called Group Quantization and Sparse Acceleration (GQSA) for large language models (LLMs). GQSA integrates quantization and sparsification to achieve efficient acceleration, leveraging GPU-friendly structured group sparsity and quantization. The authors propose a two-stage sparse optimization strategy to ensure the performance superiority of the compressed model. They also introduce a “task-centric” parallel strategy for system-algorithm co-design principles. Compared to traditional methods, GQSA offers a more flexible and adjustable sparsity rate, as well as a higher weight compression rate, and is efficiently compatible with weight-only quantization methods. The experimental results demonstrate that GQSA outperforms traditional methods in terms of accuracy and speed. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary GQSA is a new way to make big language models smaller and faster. Right now, there are ways to shrink these models using either “quantization” or “sparsification”, but they have some limitations. This paper combines both methods to create a better compression technique that works well with computers. The authors also came up with a new way to make the computer work more efficiently when it’s doing tasks related to language processing. They tested their method and found that it is faster and more accurate than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Quantization
