Summary of The N-grammys: Accelerating Autoregressive Inference with Learning-free Batched Speculation, by Lawrence Stewart (sierra) et al.
The N-Grammys: Accelerating Autoregressive Inference with Learning-Free Batched Speculation
by Lawrence Stewart, Matthew Trager, Sujan Kumar Gonugondla, Stefano Soatto
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Nov 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 proposes speculative decoding to accelerate autoregressive language generation. By verifying tokens in parallel with a smaller draft model, it aims to reduce processing time. The authors explore learning-free, negligible-cost draft strategies using N-grams from the model weights and context. While these simple methods don’t always predict the top token, they often rank highly, allowing combinations to achieve significant inference speedups across various tasks. This approach is comparable in performance to more complex methods but requires minimal preprocessing or modifications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper tries to make language models generate text faster. It does this by checking words in parallel with a smaller version of the model. The authors found that simple ways to predict next words are often good enough, so they combined these strategies to make things go faster. This approach is as good as more complicated methods but doesn’t require much extra work. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoregressive » Inference » Token
