4 papers
ParallelKittens: Systematic and Practical Simplification of Multi-GPU AI Kernels
Stuart H. Sul, Simran Arora, Benjamin F. Spector +1
Inter-GPU communication has become a major bottleneck for modern AI workloads as models scale and improvements in hardware compute throughput outpace improvements in interconnect b…
LoLCATs: On Low-Rank Linearizing of Large Language Models
Michael Zhang, Simran Arora, Rahul Chalamala +5
Recent works show we can linearize large language models (LLMs) -- swapping the quadratic attentions of popular Transformer-based LLMs with subquadratic analogs, such as linear att…
Scaling Laws for Precision
Tanishq Kumar, Zachary Ankner, Benjamin F. Spector +6
Low precision training and inference affect both the quality and cost of language models, but current scaling laws do not account for this. In this work, we devise "precision-aware…
ThunderKittens: Simple, Fast, and Adorable AI Kernels
Benjamin F. Spector, Simran Arora, Aaryan Singhal +2
The challenge of mapping AI architectures to GPU hardware is creating a critical bottleneck in AI progress. Despite substantial efforts, hand-written custom kernels fail to meet th…