4 papers
L: Large Lookup Layers
Albert Tseng, Christopher De Sa
Modern sparse language models typically achieve sparsity through Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layers, which dynamically route tokens to dense MLP "experts." However, dynamic hard routi…
Model-Preserving Adaptive Rounding
Albert Tseng, Zhaofeng Sun, Christopher De Sa
The goal of quantization is to produce a compressed model whose output distribution is as close to the original model's as possible. To do this tractably, most quantization algorit…
Training LLMs with MXFP4
Albert Tseng, Tao Yu, Youngsuk Park
Low precision (LP) datatypes such as MXFP4 can accelerate matrix multiplications (GEMMs) and reduce training costs. However, directly using MXFP4 instead of BF16 during training si…
QTIP: Quantization with Trellises and Incoherence Processing
Albert Tseng, Qingyao Sun, David Hou +1
Post-training quantization (PTQ) reduces the memory footprint of LLMs by quantizing weights to low-precision datatypes. Since LLM inference is usually memory-bound, PTQ methods can…