4 papers
MoFa: A Unified Performance Modeling Framework for LLM Pretraining
Lu Zhao, Rong Shi, Shaoqing Zhang +14
The exponential growth in LLM scales, with parameters soaring from billions to trillions, has necessitated distributed pretraining across large clusters comprising thousands to ten…
Finding Fantastic Experts in MoEs: A Unified Study for Expert Dropping Strategies and Observations
Ajay Jaiswal, Jianyu Wang, Yixiao Li +6
Sparsely activated Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) has shown promise in scaling up the learning capacity of neural networks. However, vanilla SMoEs have issues such as expert redundancy…
IDEA Prune: An Integrated Enlarge-and-Prune Pipeline in Generative Language Model Pretraining
Yixiao Li, Xianzhi Du, Ajay Jaiswal +4
Recent advancements in large language models have intensified the need for efficient and deployable models within limited inference budgets. Structured pruning pipelines have shown…
Instruction-Following Pruning for Large Language Models
Bairu Hou, Qibin Chen, Jianyu Wang +6
With the rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs), structured pruning has become a widely used technique to learn efficient, smaller models from larger ones, delivering superi…