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FlashFormer: Whole-Model Kernels for Efficient Low-Batch Inference
Aniruddha Nrusimha, William Brandon, Mayank Mishra +4
The size and compute characteristics of modern large language models have led to an increased interest in developing specialized kernels tailored for particular training and infere…
Ladder-residual: parallelism-aware architecture for accelerating large model inference with communication overlapping
Muru Zhang, Mayank Mishra, Zhongzhu Zhou +7
Large language model inference is both memory-intensive and time-consuming, often requiring distributed algorithms to efficiently scale. Various model parallelism strategies are us…
Fast Matrix Multiplications for Lookup Table-Quantized LLMs
Han Guo, William Brandon, Radostin Cholakov +3
The deployment of large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by memory bandwidth, where the primary bottleneck is the cost of transferring model parameters from the GPU's gl…
Hydra: Sequentially-Dependent Draft Heads for Medusa Decoding
Zachary Ankner, Rishab Parthasarathy, Aniruddha Nrusimha +3
To combat the memory bandwidth-bound nature of autoregressive LLM inference, previous research has proposed the speculative decoding frame-work. To perform speculative decoding, a…
Reducing Transformer Key-Value Cache Size with Cross-Layer Attention
William Brandon, Mayank Mishra, Aniruddha Nrusimha +2
Key-value (KV) caching plays an essential role in accelerating decoding for transformer-based autoregressive large language models (LLMs). However, the amount of memory required to…