4 papers
OScaR: The Occam's Razor for Extreme KV Cache Quantization in LLMs and Beyond
Zunhai Su, Rui Yang, Chao Zhang +11
The rapid advancement toward long-context reasoning and multi-modal intelligence has made the memory footprint of the Key-Value (KV) cache a dominant memory bottleneck for efficien…
BitDecoding: Unlocking Tensor Cores for Long-Context LLMs with Low-Bit KV Cache
Dayou Du, Shijie Cao, Jianyi Cheng +3
The growth of long-context Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly increases memory and bandwidth pressure during autoregressive decoding due to the expanding Key-Value (KV) cac…
Dissecting the NVIDIA Hopper Architecture through Microbenchmarking and Multiple Level Analysis
Weile Luo, Ruibo Fan, Zeyu Li +4
This study presents a comprehensive multi-level analysis of the NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture, focusing on its performance characteristics and novel features. We benchmark Hopper'…
SeerAttention: Learning Intrinsic Sparse Attention in Your LLMs
Yizhao Gao, Zhichen Zeng, Dayou Du +8
Attention is the cornerstone of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet its quadratic complexity hinders efficiency and scalability, especially for long-context processing. A prom…