A survey on deep neural network pruning: Taxonomy, comparison, analysis, and recommendations
Modern deep neural networks, particularly recent large language models, come with
massive model sizes that require significant computational and storage resources. To …
massive model sizes that require significant computational and storage resources. To …
A survey of techniques for optimizing transformer inference
Recent years have seen a phenomenal rise in the performance and applications of
transformer neural networks. The family of transformer networks, including Bidirectional …
transformer neural networks. The family of transformer networks, including Bidirectional …
Llm-pruner: On the structural pruning of large language models
Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in language
understanding and generation. However, such impressive capability typically comes with a …
understanding and generation. However, such impressive capability typically comes with a …
Sparsegpt: Massive language models can be accurately pruned in one-shot
We show for the first time that large-scale generative pretrained transformer (GPT) family
models can be pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining, at minimal …
models can be pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining, at minimal …
A simple and effective pruning approach for large language models
As their size increases, Large Languages Models (LLMs) are natural candidates for network
pruning methods: approaches that drop a subset of network weights while striving to …
pruning methods: approaches that drop a subset of network weights while striving to …
{InfiniGen}: Efficient generative inference of large language models with dynamic {KV} cache management
Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive performance
across various natural language processing tasks. Serving LLM inference for generating …
across various natural language processing tasks. Serving LLM inference for generating …
Squeezellm: Dense-and-sparse quantization
Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable results for a
wide range of tasks. However, deploying these models for inference has been a significant …
wide range of tasks. However, deploying these models for inference has been a significant …
Speculative decoding with big little decoder
The recent emergence of Large Language Models based on the Transformer architecture
has enabled dramatic advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing. However …
has enabled dramatic advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing. However …
Full stack optimization of transformer inference: a survey
Recent advances in state-of-the-art DNN architecture design have been moving toward
Transformer models. These models achieve superior accuracy across a wide range of …
Transformer models. These models achieve superior accuracy across a wide range of …
Shortened llama: A simple depth pruning for large language models
Structured pruning of modern large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a way of
decreasing their high computational needs. Width pruning reduces the size of projection …
decreasing their high computational needs. Width pruning reduces the size of projection …