4 papers
Towards Fast LLM Fine-tuning through Zeroth-Order Optimization with Projected Gradient-Aligned Perturbations
Zhendong Mi, Qitao Tan, Grace Li Zhang +3
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) using zeroth-order (ZO) optimization has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional gradient-based methods due to its reduced memory…
End-to-End On-Device Quantization-Aware Training for LLMs at Inference Cost
Qitao Tan, Xiaoying Song, Jin Lu +9
Quantization is an effective technique to reduce the deployment cost of large language models (LLMs), and post-training quantization (PTQ) has been widely studied due to its effici…
ACE: Exploring Activation Cosine Similarity and Variance for Accurate and Calibration-Efficient LLM Pruning
Zhendong Mi, Zhenglun Kong, Geng Yuan +1
With the rapid expansion of large language models (LLMs), the demand for memory and computational resources has grown significantly. Recent advances in LLM pruning aim to reduce th…
KerZOO: Kernel Function Informed Zeroth-Order Optimization for Accurate and Accelerated LLM Fine-Tuning
Zhendong Mi, Qitao Tan, Xiaodong Yu +3
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across numerous NLP tasks. Nevertheless, conventional first-order fine-tuning techniques impose heavy memory…