Summary of Buzz: Beehive-structured Sparse Kv Cache with Segmented Heavy Hitters For Efficient Llm Inference, by Junqi Zhao et al.
BUZZ: Beehive-structured Sparse KV Cache with Segmented Heavy Hitters for Efficient LLM Inference
by Junqi Zhao, Zhijin Fang, Shu Li, Shaohui Yang, Shichao He
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed BUZZ algorithm addresses the limitations of large language models (LLMs) in transformer-based architectures by introducing a novel key-value caching mechanism. This approach leverages structured contextual information to minimize cache memory usage while enhancing inference speed. The BUZZ algorithm employs a beehive-structured sparse cache, utilizing a sliding window to capture recent information and dynamically segmenting historical tokens into chunks to prioritize important tokens within local neighborhoods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are essential in natural language processing but often struggle with inference speed and computational efficiency. A new caching algorithm called BUZZ is introduced to reduce computational overhead while enhancing inference speed. This approach uses a structured cache that captures recent information and prioritizes important tokens. The results show that BUZZ reduces cache memory usage by 2.5 times and achieves state-of-the-art performance in question answering. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Natural language processing » Question answering » Transformer
