4 papers
CoSMoEs: Compact Sparse Mixture of Experts
Patrick Huber, Akshat Shrivastava, Ernie Chang +3
Sparse Mixture of Expert (MoE) models are popular foundational architectures at large scale, however, under-explored at smaller sizes. Here, we show how to enable Compact Sparse Mi…
LayerSkip: Enabling Early Exit Inference and Self-Speculative Decoding
Mostafa Elhoushi, Akshat Shrivastava, Diana Liskovich +10
We present LayerSkip, an end-to-end solution to speed-up inference of large language models (LLMs). First, during training we apply layer dropout, with low dropout rates for earlie…
CoDi: Conversational Distillation for Grounded Question Answering
Patrick Huber, Arash Einolghozati, Rylan Conway +6
Distilling conversational skills into Small Language Models (SLMs) with approximately 1 billion parameters presents significant challenges. Firstly, SLMs have limited capacity in t…
PRoDeliberation: Parallel Robust Deliberation for End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding
Trang Le, Daniel Lazar, Suyoun Kim +6
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a critical component of voice assistants; it consists of converting speech to semantic parses for task execution. Previous works have explore…