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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…
Efficient Data Selection at Scale via Influence Distillation
Mahdi Nikdan, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Dan Alistarh +1
Effective data selection is critical for efficient training of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper introduces Influence Distillation, a novel, mathematically-justified…
Panza: Design and Analysis of a Fully-Local Personalized Text Writing Assistant
Armand Nicolicioiu, Eugenia Iofinova, Andrej Jovanovic +6
The availability of powerful open-source large language models (LLMs) opens exciting use-cases, such as using personal data to fine-tune these models to imitate a user's unique wri…
RoSA: Accurate Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Robust Adaptation
Mahdi Nikdan, Soroush Tabesh, Elvir CrnÄeviÄ +1
We investigate parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods that can provide good accuracy under limited computational and memory budgets in the context of large language models…