Summary of Pv-tuning: Beyond Straight-through Estimation For Extreme Llm Compression, by Vladimir Malinovskii et al.
PV-Tuning: Beyond Straight-Through Estimation for Extreme LLM Compression
by Vladimir Malinovskii, Denis Mazur, Ivan Ilin, Denis Kuznedelev, Konstantin Burlachenko, Kai Yi, Dan Alistarh, Peter Richtarik
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 May 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 The paper explores extreme compression of large language models (LLMs) to enable efficient execution on resource-constrained devices. While previous work focused on one-shot quantization techniques and weight representations, the accuracy-vs-bit-width trade-off has reached a plateau. The authors question the use of straight-through estimators (STE) for extreme LLM compression, showing that it can be sub-optimal. Instead, they propose PV-Tuning – a representation-agnostic framework that generalizes and improves upon existing fine-tuning strategies, providing convergence guarantees in restricted cases. Using PV-Tuning, the authors achieve Pareto-optimal quantization for highly-performant models such as Llama and Mistral at 2 bits per parameter. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making big language models smaller so they can work on devices with limited resources. Right now, we’re stuck using techniques that are getting less accurate the more we compress them. The authors want to know if a method called straight-through estimators (STE) is really the best way to do this kind of compression. They found out that STE isn’t always the best choice and came up with a new approach called PV-Tuning. This new method works better than previous ones for big language models like Llama and Mistral. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Llama » One shot » Quantization
