Summary of Moyu: a Theoretical Study on Massive Over-activation Yielded Uplifts in Llms, by Chi Ma et al.
MOYU: A Theoretical Study on Massive Over-activation Yielded Uplifts in LLMs
by Chi Ma, Mincong Huang, Chao Wang, Yujie Wang, Lei Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 explores a property called Massive Over-activation Yielded Uplifts (MOYU) in large language models, which can be harnessed to accelerate inference. Existing methods that utilize MOYU face challenges in balancing model performance, inference speed, and applicability across different architectures. The authors investigate the root cause of MOYU and identify two primary limitations: history-related activation uncertainty and semantic-irrelevant activation inertia. They analyze the limitations of current dynamic activation strategies in LLaMA models and propose opportunities for refining future sparsity schemes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models have a secret to speed up their calculations. This property is called MOYU, and it can be used to make these models work faster. Right now, people are trying to use this property to improve how fast the models can do things, but they’re having trouble balancing how well the model works with how fast it can work. The authors of this paper figured out why this is happening and came up with ideas for making it better in the future. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Llama
