Summary of Aptq: Attention-aware Post-training Mixed-precision Quantization For Large Language Models, by Ziyi Guan et al.
APTQ: Attention-aware Post-Training Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models
by Ziyi Guan, Hantao Huang, Yupeng Su, Hong Huang, Ngai Wong, Hao Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to large language model (LLM) deployment on edge devices is proposed, addressing the challenges posed by computational load and model size. APTQ (Attention-aware Post-Training Mixed-Precision Quantization) is a method that considers not only weight second-order information but also attention outputs’ nonlinear effects. This informed precision reduction retains model performance while reducing computational requirements. Experimental results demonstrate APTQ’s superiority, achieving near-full-precision perplexity and state-of-the-art zero-shot accuracy on LLaMa-7B and LLaMa-13B models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large Language Models (LLMs) are getting better at understanding human language! But they’re really big and use a lot of computer power. To help with this, researchers came up with APTQ. It’s a new way to make the model smaller while still keeping its good performance. This is important because we want to be able to use these models on devices like phones or tablets. The new method works by looking at how the attention part of the model affects the whole thing and adjusting it accordingly. It seems to work really well, with some impressive results! |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Large language model * Llama * Perplexity * Precision * Quantization * Zero shot
