5 papers
E-Pruner: Towards Efficient, Economical, and Effective Layer Pruning for Large Language Models
Tao Yuan, Haoli Bai, Yinfei Pan +5
With the increasing size of large language models, layer pruning has gained increased attention as a hardware-friendly approach for model compression. However, existing layer pruni…
A Simple Linear Patch Revives Layer-Pruned Large Language Models
Xinrui Chen, Haoli Bai, Tao Yuan +7
Layer pruning has emerged as a widely used technique for compressing large language models (LLMs). However, existing layer pruning approaches often incur substantial performance de…
Quantization Hurts Reasoning? An Empirical Study on Quantized Reasoning Models
Ruikang Liu, Yuxuan Sun, Manyi Zhang +5
Recent advancements in reasoning language models have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex tasks, but their extended chain-of-thought reasoning process increases inferenc…
FastAttention: Extend FlashAttention2 to NPUs and Low-resource GPUs
Haoran Lin, Xianzhi Yu, Kang Zhao +17
FlashAttention series has been widely applied in the inference of large language models (LLMs). However, FlashAttention series only supports the high-level GPU architectures, e.g.,…
FlatQuant: Flatness Matters for LLM Quantization
Yuxuan Sun, Ruikang Liu, Haoli Bai +10
Recently, quantization has been widely used for the compression and acceleration of large language models (LLMs). Due to the outliers in LLMs, it is crucial to flatten weights and…