Summary of Tidaldecode: Fast and Accurate Llm Decoding with Position Persistent Sparse Attention, by Lijie Yang et al.
TidalDecode: Fast and Accurate LLM Decoding with Position Persistent Sparse Attention
by Lijie Yang, Zhihao Zhang, Zhuofu Chen, Zikun Li, Zhihao Jia
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 This paper proposes TidalDecode, an algorithm and system for fast and accurate large language model (LLM) decoding through position persistent sparse attention. The authors address two limitations of existing sparse attention mechanisms: reliably identifying relevant tokens and overlooking spatial coherence across Transformer layers. TidalDecode leverages this spatial coherence to reduce the overhead of token selection while maintaining quality results. The approach introduces a few full-attention layers to select high-scoring tokens, with other layers performing sparse attention on pre-selected tokens. Evaluation on various LLMs and tasks shows that TidalDecode matches generative performance of full attention methods while reducing decoding latency by up to 2.1x. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making large language models work better and faster. Right now, these models are really good at understanding long pieces of text, but they can be slow because they need a lot of memory. The researchers created a new way to make the model decode (or understand) the text faster without sacrificing accuracy. They did this by building on existing methods that try to figure out which parts of the text are most important. Their new method is called TidalDecode and it works by looking at how different parts of the text relate to each other, which helps it make better decisions about what’s important. This makes the model faster and more efficient. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Large language model » Token » Transformer
