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BBAL: A Bidirectional Block Floating Point-Based Quantisation Accelerator for Large Language Models
Xiaomeng Han, Yuan Cheng, Jing Wang +6
Large language models (LLMs), with their billions of parameters, pose substantial challenges for deployment on edge devices, straining both memory capacity and computational resour…
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NVR: Vector Runahead on NPUs for Sparse Memory Access
Hui Wang, Zhengpeng Zhao, Jing Wang +11
Deep Neural Networks are increasingly leveraging sparsity to reduce the scaling up of model parameter size. However, reducing wall-clock time through sparsity and pruning remains c…
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Pushing the Limits of BFP on Narrow Precision LLM Inference
Hui Wang, Yuan Cheng, Xiaomeng Han +3
The substantial computational and memory demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) hinder their deployment. Block Floating Point (BFP) has proven effective in accelerating linear ope…