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Scaling Laws for Precision
Tanishq Kumar, Zachary Ankner, Benjamin F. Spector +6
Low precision training and inference affect both the quality and cost of language models, but current scaling laws do not account for this. In this work, we devise "precision-aware…
RedPajama: an Open Dataset for Training Large Language Models
Maurice Weber, Daniel Fu, Quentin Anthony +16
Large language models are increasingly becoming a cornerstone technology in artificial intelligence, the sciences, and society as a whole, yet the optimal strategies for dataset co…
ThunderKittens: Simple, Fast, and Adorable AI Kernels
Benjamin F. Spector, Simran Arora, Aaryan Singhal +2
The challenge of mapping AI architectures to GPU hardware is creating a critical bottleneck in AI progress. Despite substantial efforts, hand-written custom kernels fail to meet th…
LoLCATs: On Low-Rank Linearizing of Large Language Models
Michael Zhang, Simran Arora, Rahul Chalamala +5
Recent works show we can linearize large language models (LLMs) -- swapping the quadratic attentions of popular Transformer-based LLMs with subquadratic analogs, such as linear att…
Restructuring Vector Quantization with the Rotation Trick
Christopher Fifty, Ronald G. Junkins, Dennis Duan +5
Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAEs) are designed to compress a continuous input to a discrete latent space and reconstruct it with minimal distortion. They operate…
Just read twice: closing the recall gap for recurrent language models
Simran Arora, Aman Timalsina, Aaryan Singhal +6
Recurrent large language models that compete with Transformers in language modeling perplexity are emerging at a rapid rate (e.g., Mamba, RWKV). Excitingly, these architectures use…
Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling
Bradley Brown, Jordan Juravsky, Ryan Ehrlich +4
Scaling the amount of compute used to train language models has dramatically improved their capabilities. However, when it comes to inference, we often limit models to making only…