Summary of Foldgpt: Simple and Effective Large Language Model Compression Scheme, by Songwei Liu et al.
FoldGPT: Simple and Effective Large Language Model Compression Scheme
by Songwei Liu, Chao Zeng, Lianqiang Li, Chenqian Yan, Lean Fu, Xing Mei, Fangmin Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 The proposed study investigates the efficiency of deploying large language models (LLMs) on mobile devices. By analyzing the outputs of different layers across various scales of LLMs, researchers found that most layers exhibit significant similarity, indicating redundancy in the depth direction of the models. Based on this observation, they developed an efficient model volume compression strategy called FoldGPT. This method combines block removal and parameter sharing to compress model size while maintaining performance. The study demonstrates that FoldGPT outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods in efficient model compression. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are getting bigger! But deploying them on mobile devices is tricky because of limited memory and bandwidth. Scientists discovered that most layers in these models do similar things, which means they can be simplified to make the models smaller. They created a new way to shrink models called FoldGPT, which gets rid of some parts and shares information between others. It works really well! |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Model compression
