Summary of Qet: Enhancing Quantized Llm Parameters and Kv Cache Compression Through Element Substitution and Residual Clustering, by Yanshu Wang et al.
QET: Enhancing Quantized LLM Parameters and KV cache Compression through Element Substitution and Residual Clustering
by Yanshu Wang, Wang Li, Zhaoqian Yao, Tong Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 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 Quantization Error Minimization (QEM) problem aims to minimize the distance between a matrix before and after quantization, under the constraint that the quantized matrix occupies the same memory space. This approach is crucial in various applications, including Large Language Models (LLMs) weight quantization, vector databases, KV cache quantization, graph compression, and image compression. The paper focuses on the importance of matrix compression in recent advancements in LLMs, such as GPT-4 and BERT. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Matrix quantization is a technique that represents matrix elements in a more space-efficient form to reduce storage usage. This is important because large language models like GPT-4 and BERT have many parameters and a KV cache that need to be stored as matrices, taking up a lot of memory. The paper tries to solve this problem by minimizing the difference between the original and quantized matrix. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bert » Gpt » Quantization
