4 papers
Motivating Next-Gen Accelerators with Flexible (N:M) Activation Sparsity via Benchmarking Lightweight Post-Training Sparsification Approaches
Shirin Alanova, Kristina Kazistova, Ekaterina Galaeva +7
The demand for efficient large language model (LLM) inference has intensified the focus on sparsification techniques. While semi-structured (N:M) pruning is well-established for we…
KBest: Efficient Vector Search on Kunpeng CPU
Kaihao Ma, Meiling Wang, Senkevich Oleg +19
Vector search, which returns the vectors most similar to a given query vector from a large vector dataset, underlies many important applications such as search, recommendation, and…
Amber Pruner: Leveraging N:M Activation Sparsity for Efficient Prefill in Large Language Models
Tai An, Ruwu Cai, Yanzhe Zhang +6
In the era of large language models (LLMs), N:M sparsity has emerged as a structured compression technique critical for accelerating inference. While prior work has primarily focus…
RainFusion: Adaptive Video Generation Acceleration via Multi-Dimensional Visual Redundancy
Aiyue Chen, Bin Dong, Jingru Li +4
Video generation using diffusion models is highly computationally intensive, with 3D attention in Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models accounting for over 80\% of the total computati…