Summary of Flextron: Many-in-one Flexible Large Language Model, by Ruisi Cai et al.
Flextron: Many-in-One Flexible Large Language Model
by Ruisi Cai, Saurav Muralidharan, Greg Heinrich, Hongxu Yin, Zhangyang Wang, Jan Kautz, Pavlo Molchanov
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Jun 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 introduces Flextron, a novel network architecture and post-training model optimization framework for customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) for deployment in resource-constrained scenarios. The Flextron architecture features a nested elastic structure that adapts to specific latency and accuracy targets during inference without requiring additional fine-tuning. It is also input-adaptive, automatically routing tokens through sub-networks for improved performance and efficiency. A sample-efficient training method and associated routing algorithms are presented for transforming existing trained LLMs into Flextron models. Evaluations on GPT-3 and LLama-2 demonstrate superior performance compared to end-to-end trained variants and other state-of-the-art elastic networks, all with a single pretraining run that consumes only 7.63% tokens. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Flextron is a new way to make language models work better in places where computers are slow or don’t have much memory. Right now, it’s hard to make these models work well on devices like smartphones because they need so many calculations and data. Flextron solves this problem by creating a special kind of model that can adjust itself to fit the device it’s running on. This means it can be fast or accurate depending on what you need. The scientists who made Flextron also came up with a way to train their models using less data, which is helpful because gathering lots of data takes time and space. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Gpt » Inference » Llama » Optimization » Pretraining
