12 papers
The Llama 4 Herd: Architecture, Training, Evaluation, and Deployment Notes
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This document consolidates publicly reported technical details about Metas Llama 4 model family. It summarizes (i) released variants (Scout and Maverick) and the broader herd conte…
Set Block Decoding is a Language Model Inference Accelerator
Itai Gat, Heli Ben-Hamu, Marton Havasi +6
Autoregressive next token prediction language models offer powerful capabilities but face significant challenges in practical deployment due to the high computational and memory co…
Efficient Speculative Decoding for Llama at Scale: Challenges and Solutions
Bangsheng Tang, Carl Chengyan Fu, Fei Kou +35
Speculative decoding is a standard method for accelerating the inference speed of large language models. However, scaling it for production environments poses several engineering c…
LLäMmlein: Transparent, Compact and Competitive German-Only Language Models from Scratch
Jan Pfister, Julia Wunderle, Andreas Hotho
We create two German-only decoder models, LLäMmlein 120M and 1B, transparently from scratch and publish them, along with the training data, for the German NLP research community t…
Dialect Normalization using Large Language Models and Morphological Rules
Antonios Dimakis, John Pavlopoulos, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Natural language understanding systems struggle with low-resource languages, including many dialects of high-resource ones. Dialect-to-standard normalization attempts to tackle thi…
Characterizing and Efficiently Accelerating Multimodal Generation Model Inference
Yejin Lee, Anna Sun, Basil Hosmer +27
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology is revolutionizing the computing industry. Not only its applications have broadened to various sectors but also poses new system…