Summary of Intactkv: Improving Large Language Model Quantization by Keeping Pivot Tokens Intact, By Ruikang Liu et al.
IntactKV: Improving Large Language Model Quantization by Keeping Pivot Tokens Intact
by Ruikang Liu, Haoli Bai, Haokun Lin, Yuening Li, Han Gao, Zhengzhuo Xu, Lu Hou, Jun Yao, Chun Yuan
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Mar 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 In this paper, researchers explore a new approach to mitigate the computational demands of large language models (LLMs) without sacrificing their performance. Specifically, they identify a type of outliers in LLMs that allocate most attention scores on initial tokens, dubbed “pivot tokens.” To leverage these pivot tokens, the authors propose IntactKV, a method that generates KV cache losslessly from full-precision models, which can be easily combined with existing quantization solutions without extra inference overhead. The authors also show that IntactKV can be calibrated as additional LLM parameters to further boost performance while minimizing training costs. Mathematical analysis demonstrates that IntactKV effectively reduces the upper bound of quantization error. Empirical results on various LLMs and downstream tasks confirm that IntactKV brings consistent improvement over existing methods, achieving a new state-of-the-art for LLM quantization. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding ways to make large language models work better without using too much computer power. Researchers discovered that some parts of the model are more important than others and can be used to improve performance. They created a new method called IntactKV that helps these important parts work together better, making the model more accurate. This method is easy to use with other ways to make models work better and doesn’t require extra computer power. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Inference » Precision » Quantization
