10 papers
PADE: A Predictor-Free Sparse Attention Accelerator via Unified Execution and Stage Fusion
Huizheng Wang, Hongbin Wang, Zichuan Wang +5
Attention-based models have revolutionized AI, but the quadratic cost of self-attention incurs severe computational and memory overhead. Sparse attention methods alleviate this by…
TEMP: A Memory Efficient Physical-aware Tensor Partition-Mapping Framework on Wafer-scale Chips
Huizheng Wang, Taiquan Wei, Zichuan Wang +8
Large language models (LLMs) demand significant memory and computation resources. Wafer-scale chips (WSCs) provide high computation power and die-to-die (D2D) bandwidth but face a…
WATOS: Efficient LLM Training Strategies and Architecture Co-exploration for Wafer-scale Chip
Huizheng Wang, Zichuan Wang, Hongbin Wang +5
Training large language models (LLMs) imposes extreme demands on computation, memory capacity, and interconnect bandwidth, driven by their ever-increasing parameter scales and inte…
BitStopper: An Efficient Transformer Attention Accelerator via Stage-fusion and Early Termination
Huizheng Wang, Hongbin Wang, Shaojun Wei +2
Attention-based large language models (LLMs) have transformed modern AI applications, but the quadratic cost of self-attention imposes significant compute and memory overhead. Dyna…
LAPA: Log-Domain Prediction-Driven Dynamic Sparsity Accelerator for Transformer Model
Huizheng Wang, Hongbin Wang, Shaojun Wei +2
Attention-based Transformers have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) and shown strong performance in computer vision (CV) tasks. However, as the input sequence varies…
MoEntwine: Unleashing the Potential of Wafer-scale Chips for Large-scale Expert Parallel Inference
Xinru Tang, Jingxiang Hou, Dingcheng Jiang +9
As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale up, mixture-of-experts (MoE) has become a common technology in SOTA models. MoE models rely on expert parallelism (EP) to alleviat…