Summary of Efficient Prompt Caching Via Embedding Similarity, by Hanlin Zhu et al.
Efficient Prompt Caching via Embedding Similarity
by Hanlin Zhu, Banghua Zhu, Jiantao Jiao
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 addresses the challenge of significant resource consumption in large language models (LLMs) during inference by introducing prompt caching, a method that leverages previous prompts’ responses to answer new queries. The authors focus on single-round question-answering tasks and propose a distillation-based approach to fine-tune existing embeddings for better caching prediction. They provide finite-sample guarantees for the convergence of their method under different loss functions and demonstrate its effectiveness through simulations, achieving an AUC of 0.81 compared to 0.51 with previous models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper tries to make language models more efficient by reusing old answers when possible. Imagine you’re talking to a friend and they just said something really smart. If you ask the same question again later, wouldn’t it be nice if your friend could just recall what they said earlier instead of thinking about it all over again? That’s basically what this paper is doing for computers. It finds ways to make language models learn from their previous answers so they can give better responses faster. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Auc * Distillation * Inference * Prompt * Question answering * Recall
