Summary of Alignedkv: Reducing Memory Access Of Kv-cache with Precision-aligned Quantization, by Yifan Tan and Haoze Wang and Chao Yan and Yangdong Deng
AlignedKV: Reducing Memory Access of KV-Cache with Precision-Aligned Quantization
by Yifan Tan, Haoze Wang, Chao Yan, Yangdong Deng
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Sep 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 Model quantization is crucial for large language models (LLMs) due to issues with memory consumption and inference times. Mixed-precision quantization achieves a balance between precision and compression rate by distinguishing between important and unimportant parameters. However, existing approaches lack a quantitative framework to evaluate the importance of parameters. Our proposed ‘precision alignment’ criterion builds such a framework for mixed-precision quantization. We demonstrate this principle through observations on floating point addition under real-world scenarios, suggesting that addends should have identical precision to avoid wasting information. This discovery is applied to large model inference through dynamic KV-Cache quantization, reducing memory access latency and accelerating LLM computation by up to 1.3x in the decoding phase. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) need to be more efficient with memory and time. One way to do this is by reducing the size of the model without losing its ability to understand language. Our research proposes a new method for doing this called “mixed-precision quantization”. This method looks at which parts of the model are most important and gives them more precise calculations, while less important parts use simpler calculations. We also developed a way to apply this method to large models, reducing memory access time by 25% and making computations up to 1.3 times faster. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Inference » Precision » Quantization
