Summary of Skvq: Sliding-window Key and Value Cache Quantization For Large Language Models, by Haojie Duanmu et al.
SKVQ: Sliding-window Key and Value Cache Quantization for Large Language Models
by Haojie Duanmu, Zhihang Yuan, Xiuhong Li, Jiangfei Duan, Xingcheng Zhang, Dahua Lin
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 May 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 A novel approach called SKVQ (sliding-window key-value cache quantization) is proposed to address the memory bottleneck issue in large language models (LLMs). As LLMs handle longer sequences, they require a significant amount of memory for their key-value caches, which becomes a major limitation. The authors present a strategy that rearranges channels to improve similarity and applies clipped dynamic quantization at the group level. This approach ensures high precision for recent tokens while achieving high compression ratios. Experimental results demonstrate that SKVQ outperforms previous approaches, enabling 2-bit keys and 1.5-bit values with minimal accuracy loss. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are getting better at understanding books and even writing novels! However, they need a lot of memory to do so. This paper shows how to make the memory needed for these models smaller without losing too much accuracy. They do this by rearranging some parts of the model’s memory and using less bits to store it. This makes the model work faster and use less memory. It’s like compressing a big file to send it over the internet. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Precision » Quantization
