8 papers
Active Learning with Low-Rank Structure for Data Selection
Vincent Cohen-Addad, Sasidhar Kunapuli, Vahab Mirrokni +3
In the data selection problem, the objective is to choose a small, representative subset of data that can be used to efficiently train a machine learning model. Sener and Savarese…
GSQ: Highly-Accurate Low-Precision Scalar Quantization for LLMs via Gumbel-Softmax Sampling
Alireza Dadgarnia, Soroush Tabesh, Mahdi Nikdan +4
Quantization has become a standard tool for efficient LLM deployment, especially for local inference, where models are now routinely served at 2-3 bits per parameter. The state of…
ECO: Quantized Training without Full-Precision Master Weights
Mahdi Nikdan, Amir Zandieh, Dan Alistarh +1
Quantization has significantly improved the compute and memory efficiency of Large Language Model (LLM) training. However, existing approaches still rely on accumulating their upda…
Quartet: Native FP4 Training Can Be Optimal for Large Language Models
Roberto L. Castro, Andrei Panferov, Soroush Tabesh +5
Training large language models (LLMs) models directly in low-precision offers a way to address computational costs by improving both throughput and energy efficiency. For those pur…
HALO: Hadamard-Assisted Lower-Precision Optimization for LLMs
Saleh Ashkboos, Mahdi Nikdan, Soroush Tabesh +3
Quantized training of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains an open challenge, as maintaining accuracy while performing all matrix multiplications in low precision has proven diffic…
QuEST: Stable Training of LLMs with 1-Bit Weights and Activations
Andrei Panferov, Jiale Chen, Soroush Tabesh +3
One approach to reducing the massive costs of large language models (LLMs) is the use of quantized or sparse representations for training or deployment. While post-training compres…