Summary of Dfrot: Achieving Outlier-free and Massive Activation-free For Rotated Llms with Refined Rotation, by Jingyang Xiang et al.
DFRot: Achieving Outlier-Free and Massive Activation-Free for Rotated LLMs with Refined Rotation
by Jingyang Xiang, Sai Qian Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper investigates the efficacy of rotating activation and weight matrices in reducing the influence of outliers in large language models (LLMs). The authors analyze previous studies on low-precision quantization scenarios, such as 4-bit weights and 4-bit activations (W4A4), where randomized Hadamard transforms have been shown to achieve higher accuracy than randomized orthogonal transforms. Despite this, the underlying reason for the accuracy difference remains unknown. The paper aims to address this gap by examining the effects of different transformations on quantization error and proposing a simple yet effective method: a weighted loss function. Additionally, the authors propose an optimization strategy for the rotation matrix using alternating optimization of quantization parameters and orthogonal Procrustes transforms. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The proposed method, dubbed DFRot (Dual Free, Outlier-Free, and Massive Activation-Free), enhances Rotated LLMs by achieving a perplexity improvement of 0.25 and 0.21 on W4A4KV4 and W4A4KV16, respectively, for LLaMA3-8B, a model known for its quantization challenges. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Loss function » Optimization » Perplexity » Precision » Quantization
