Summary of Chimera: a Lossless Decoding Method For Accelerating Large Language Models Inference by Fusing All Tokens, By Ziqian Zeng et al.
Chimera: A Lossless Decoding Method for Accelerating Large Language Models Inference by Fusing all Tokens
by Ziqian Zeng, Jiahong Yu, Qianshi Pang, Zihao Wang, Huiping Zhuang, Hongen Shao, Xiaofeng Zou
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper presents a novel solution to accelerate the decoding process in large language models (LLMs). The current approaches that incorporate additional decoding heads for parallel prediction are not as accurate as the traditional auto-regressive decoding method. However, this limitation is overcome by introducing a new architecture that optimizes the decoding process while maintaining high accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models have come a long way in solving various tasks with ease. However, there’s a catch – they require lots of resources to decode what they’ve learned. Scientists have tried to speed up this process by adding more “decoding heads” that can predict multiple tokens at once. But, it turns out these new heads aren’t as good as the original way of decoding words one by one. |
