Summary of Magr: Weight Magnitude Reduction For Enhancing Post-training Quantization, by Aozhong Zhang et al.
MagR: Weight Magnitude Reduction for Enhancing Post-Training Quantization
by Aozhong Zhang, Naigang Wang, Yanxia Deng, Xin Li, Zi Yang, Penghang Yin
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- 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 The authors propose Weight Magnitude Reduction (MagR), an optimization-based preprocessing technique that improves post-training quantization performance for linear layers. MagR adjusts pre-trained floating-point weights by solving an _-regularized optimization problem, reducing weight magnitudes and smoothing out outliers while preserving output. This results in centered weights around zero, facilitating quantization. The authors employ a proximal gradient descent algorithm to address regularization and ensure no overhead at inference time. MagR achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Llama family of models, demonstrating a Wikitext2 perplexity of 5.95 for per-channel INT2 weight quantization without incurring any inference overhead. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MagR is a new way to make neural networks work better with less computing power. It takes pre-trained weights and makes them smaller, which helps when you’re trying to use the network on devices that don’t have as much power. The authors used an efficient algorithm to do this, which means it doesn’t slow down the network too much. They tested MagR on special types of neural networks called Llama models and found that it worked really well, getting better results than other methods without using extra computing resources. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gradient descent » Inference » Llama » Optimization » Perplexity » Quantization » Regularization
