Summary of Cdquant: Greedy Coordinate Descent For Accurate Llm Quantization, by Pranav Ajit Nair and Arun Sai Suggala
CDQuant: Greedy Coordinate Descent for Accurate LLM Quantization
by Pranav Ajit Nair, Arun Sai Suggala
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jun 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 This paper explores the development of a novel post-training quantization (PTQ) method called CDQuant, which leverages greedy coordinate descent to optimize layer-wise reconstruction loss. The authors introduce this algorithm as an alternative to existing PTQ methods, such as GPTQ, and demonstrate its improved performance on large language models (LLMs). Specifically, they show that CDQuant consistently outperforms GPTQ in 2-4 bit weight quantization using Gemma and PaLM2 model families. Moreover, the authors highlight that CDQuant can be used to further improve the quality of state-of-the-art PTQ techniques such as QuIP and FrameQuant when serving as a replacement for their GPTQ component. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes a breakthrough in reducing the size of large language models without sacrificing performance. The researchers create a new way to compress these models, called CDQuant, which is faster and better than an existing method called GPTQ. They test this new algorithm on two types of models and show that it works just as well or even better. This means that we can now use these powerful language models in more devices and applications without needing a lot of computing power. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Quantization
