Summary of Affinequant: Affine Transformation Quantization For Large Language Models, by Yuexiao Ma et al.
AffineQuant: Affine Transformation Quantization for Large Language Models
by Yuexiao Ma, Huixia Li, Xiawu Zheng, Feng Ling, Xuefeng Xiao, Rui Wang, Shilei Wen, Fei Chao, Rongrong Ji
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Mar 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 an innovative approach to compressing and accelerating Large-scale Language Models (LLMs) through Post-Training Quantization (PTQ). The authors introduce AffineQuant, a method that optimizes equivalent affine transformations in PTQ to minimize quantization errors. This approach extends the optimization scope and maintains efficiency and generalization capabilities. A gradual mask optimization method is also introduced to ensure invertibility of the transformation during optimization. The paper demonstrates significant performance improvements across different LLMs on diverse datasets. For example, it achieves a C4 perplexity of 15.76 on the LLaMA2-7B model using W4A4 quantization without overhead. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper finds new ways to make big language models smaller and faster. It shows how this can be done by changing the way we do something called Post-Training Quantization (PTQ). This helps reduce errors when shrinking the model, making it more efficient and good at guessing things. The authors also come up with a clever trick to make sure their method works properly. They test their approach on different models and datasets, and it does really well! For example, they get a score of 15.76 on one model, which is better than what other methods can do. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Generalization * Mask * Optimization * Perplexity * Quantization
