5 papers
TiC-LM: A Web-Scale Benchmark for Time-Continual LLM Pretraining
Jeffrey Li, Mohammadreza Armandpour, Iman Mirzadeh +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on historical web data inevitably become outdated. We investigate evaluation strategies and update methods for LLMs as new data becomes availab…
When Every Token Counts: Optimal Segmentation for Low-Resource Language Models
Bharath Raj, Garvit Suri, Vikrant Dewangan +1
Traditional greedy tokenization methods have been a critical step in Natural Language Processing (NLP), influencing how text is converted into tokens and directly impacting model p…
From Dense to Dynamic: Token-Difficulty Driven MoEfication of Pre-Trained LLMs
Kumari Nishu, Sachin Mehta, Samira Abnar +6
Training large language models (LLMs) for different inference constraints is computationally expensive, limiting control over efficiency-accuracy trade-offs. Moreover, once trained…
SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators
Rasoul Shafipour, David Harrison, Maxwell Horton +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but face significant challenges in widespread deployment due to their high runtime cost. In this paper, w…
KV Prediction for Improved Time to First Token
Maxwell Horton, Qingqing Cao, Chenfan Sun +4
Inference with transformer-based language models begins with a prompt processing step. In this step, the model generates the first output token and stores the KV cache needed for f…