Summary of Adaedl: Early Draft Stopping For Speculative Decoding Of Large Language Models Via An Entropy-based Lower Bound on Token Acceptance Probability, by Sudhanshu Agrawal et al.
AdaEDL: Early Draft Stopping for Speculative Decoding of Large Language Models via an Entropy-based Lower Bound on Token Acceptance Probability
by Sudhanshu Agrawal, Wonseok Jeon, Mingu Lee
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Adaptive Entropy-based Draft Length (AdaEDL), a novel technique for improving the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) without sacrificing accuracy. Speculative decoding techniques aim to accelerate inference times by proposing draft tokens and verifying them in parallel. However, setting a static draft length can be suboptimal, as it may not adapt well to scenarios with high variance in token acceptance rates. AdaEDL addresses this issue by using entropy-based criteria for early stopping of the drafting process, allowing for a more efficient use of computational resources. Experimental results show that AdaEDL outperforms existing techniques by 10-57% and is more robust in high-sampling-temperature scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper explores ways to make computers understand language better. It introduces a new technique called Adaptive Entropy-based Draft Length (AdaEDL) to help Large Language Models work faster without losing accuracy. The goal is to make these models more efficient by proposing ideas and then checking them in parallel. The problem with this approach is that it may not work well in situations where some ideas are better than others. AdaEDL solves this issue by using a special method to decide when to stop generating ideas. The results show that this technique performs better than existing methods and works well even when there’s a lot of noise. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Early stopping » Inference » Temperature » Token
