2 papers
cs.AR2024
GFormer: Accelerating Large Language Models with Optimized Transformers on Gaudi Processors
Chengming Zhang, Xinheng Ding, Baixi Sun +4
Heterogeneous hardware like Gaudi processor has been developed to enhance computations, especially matrix operations for Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) for generati…
cs.LG2024
SDP4Bit: Toward 4-bit Communication Quantization in Sharded Data Parallelism for LLM Training
Jinda Jia, Cong Xie, Hanlin Lu +8
Recent years have witnessed a clear trend towards language models with an ever-increasing number of parameters, as well as the growing training overhead and memory usage. Distribut…