Summary of Triforce: Lossless Acceleration Of Long Sequence Generation with Hierarchical Speculative Decoding, by Hanshi Sun et al.
TriForce: Lossless Acceleration of Long Sequence Generation with Hierarchical Speculative Decoding
by Hanshi Sun, Zhuoming Chen, Xinyu Yang, Yuandong Tian, Beidi Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 TriForce system is a hierarchical speculative decoding approach that addresses the bottleneck of large language models (LLMs) in long-sequence inference support. The key-value (KV) cache, which grows linearly with sequence length, is optimized by leveraging original model weights and dynamic sparse KV cache via retrieval as a draft model. This intermediate layer reduces drafting latency while facilitating speedups for LLMs like Llama2-7B-128K, achieving up to 2.31x on an A100 GPU and showcasing scalability in handling longer contexts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary TriForce is a new way to make large language models work faster and better for long texts. It helps overcome a problem called the KV cache bottleneck that makes it slow and inefficient. This system uses a clever trick to reuse old calculations and make predictions more quickly. It can even handle really long texts and works well on different computers and GPUs. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference
