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FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-Centric Algorithm-System Co-Design
However, existing systems do not provide Tensor Core support for FP6 quantization and struggle to achieve practical performance improvements during LLM inference.
DeepSpeed-FastGen: High-throughput Text Generation for LLMs via MII and DeepSpeed-Inference
The deployment and scaling of large language models (LLMs) have become critical as they permeate various applications, demanding high-throughput and low-latency serving systems.
ZeroQuant(4+2): Redefining LLMs Quantization with a New FP6-Centric Strategy for Diverse Generative Tasks
With our design, FP6 can become a promising solution to the current 4-bit quantization methods used in LLMs.
ZeroQuant-HERO: Hardware-Enhanced Robust Optimized Post-Training Quantization Framework for W8A8 Transformers
Quantization techniques are pivotal in reducing the memory and computational demands of deep neural network inference.
DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Discovery through Sophisticated AI System Technologies
In the upcoming decade, deep learning may revolutionize the natural sciences, enhancing our capacity to model and predict natural occurrences.
DeepSpeed-VisualChat: Multi-Round Multi-Image Interleave Chat via Multi-Modal Causal Attention
Most of the existing multi-modal models, hindered by their incapacity to adeptly manage interleaved image-and-text inputs in multi-image, multi-round dialogues, face substantial constraints in resource allocation for training and data accessibility, impacting their adaptability and scalability across varied interaction realms.
DeepSpeed Ulysses: System Optimizations for Enabling Training of Extreme Long Sequence Transformer Models
Computation in a typical Transformer-based large language model (LLM) can be characterized by batch size, hidden dimension, number of layers, and sequence length.
RenAIssance: A Survey into AI Text-to-Image Generation in the Era of Large Model
Text-to-image generation (TTI) refers to the usage of models that could process text input and generate high fidelity images based on text descriptions.
DeepSpeed-Chat: Easy, Fast and Affordable RLHF Training of ChatGPT-like Models at All Scales
ChatGPT-like models have revolutionized various applications in artificial intelligence, from summarization and coding to translation, matching or even surpassing human performance.
ZeroQuant-FP: A Leap Forward in LLMs Post-Training W4A8 Quantization Using Floating-Point Formats
In the complex domain of large language models (LLMs), striking a balance between computational efficiency and maintaining model quality is a formidable challenge.
ZeRO++: Extremely Efficient Collective Communication for Giant Model Training
Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO) has been used to train a wide range of large language models on massive GPUs clusters due to its ease of use, efficiency, and good scalability.
Selective Guidance: Are All the Denoising Steps of Guided Diffusion Important?
This study examines the impact of optimizing the Stable Diffusion (SD) guided inference pipeline.
HEAT: A Highly Efficient and Affordable Training System for Collaborative Filtering Based Recommendation on CPUs
Collaborative filtering (CF) has been proven to be one of the most effective techniques for recommendation.
ZeroQuant-V2: Exploring Post-training Quantization in LLMs from Comprehensive Study to Low Rank Compensation
Post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as a promising technique for mitigating memory consumption and computational costs in large language models (LLMs).
MCR-DL: Mix-and-Match Communication Runtime for Deep Learning
However, such distributed DL parallelism strategies require a varied mixture of collective and point-to-point communication operations across a broad range of message sizes and scales.
Scaling Vision-Language Models with Sparse Mixture of Experts
The field of natural language processing (NLP) has made significant strides in recent years, particularly in the development of large-scale vision-language models (VLMs).
A Hybrid Tensor-Expert-Data Parallelism Approach to Optimize Mixture-of-Experts Training
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a neural network architecture that adds sparsely activated expert blocks to a base model, increasing the number of parameters without impacting computational costs.
Understanding INT4 Quantization for Transformer Models: Latency Speedup, Composability, and Failure Cases
Improving the deployment efficiency of transformer-based language models has been challenging given their high computation and memory cost.
DeepSpeed Data Efficiency: Improving Deep Learning Model Quality and Training Efficiency via Efficient Data Sampling and Routing
Compared to the rapidly evolving model architecture, how to efficiently use the training data (especially for the expensive foundation model pretraining) is both less explored and difficult to realize due to the lack of a convenient framework that focuses on data efficiency capabilities.
Random-LTD: Random and Layerwise Token Dropping Brings Efficient Training for Large-scale Transformers
Large-scale transformer models have become the de-facto architectures for various machine learning applications, e. g., CV and NLP.
BiFeat: Supercharge GNN Training via Graph Feature Quantization
We identify the main accuracy impact factors in graph feature quantization and theoretically prove that BiFeat training converges to a network where the loss is within $\epsilon$ of the optimal loss of uncompressed network.
DeepSpeed Inference: Enabling Efficient Inference of Transformer Models at Unprecedented Scale
DeepSpeed Inference reduces latency by up to 7. 3X over the state-of-the-art for latency-oriented scenarios and increases throughput by over 1. 5x for throughput-oriented scenarios.
Compressing Pre-trained Transformers via Low-Bit NxM Sparsity for Natural Language Understanding
Furthermore, we present and inexpensive, heuristic-driven search algorithm that identifies promising heterogeneous compression configurations that meet a compression ratio constraint.
Extreme Compression for Pre-trained Transformers Made Simple and Efficient
Extreme compression, particularly ultra-low bit precision (binary/ternary) quantization, has been proposed to fit large NLP models on resource-constraint devices.
ZeroQuant: Efficient and Affordable Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale Transformers
How to efficiently serve ever-larger trained natural language models in practice has become exceptionally challenging even for powerful cloud servers due to their prohibitive memory/computation requirements.
Maximizing Communication Efficiency for Large-scale Training via 0/1 Adam
1-bit gradient compression and local steps are two representative techniques that enable drastic communication reduction in distributed SGD.
ScaLA: Accelerating Adaptation of Pre-Trained Transformer-Based Language Models via Efficient Large-Batch Adversarial Noise
In recent years, large pre-trained Transformer-based language models have led to dramatic improvements in many natural language understanding tasks.
Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model
Next, we detail the training process, the design of our training corpus, and our data curation techniques, which we believe is a key ingredient to the success of the model.
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DeepSpeed-MoE: Advancing Mixture-of-Experts Inference and Training to Power Next-Generation AI Scale
As the training of giant dense models hits the boundary on the availability and capability of the hardware resources today, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models become one of the most promising model architectures due to their significant training cost reduction compared to a quality-equivalent dense model.
SimiGrad: Fine-Grained Adaptive Batching for Large Scale Training using Gradient Similarity Measurement
In this paper, we propose a fully automated and lightweight adaptive batching methodology to enable fine-grained batch size adaption (e. g., at a mini-batch level) that can achieve state-of-the-art performance with record breaking batch sizes.
NxMTransformer: Semi-Structured Sparsification for Natural Language Understanding via ADMM
In particular, we propose to formulate the NxM sparsity as a constrained optimization problem and use Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to optimize the downstream tasks while taking the underlying hardware constraints into consideration.
ScaLA: Speeding-Up Fine-tuning of Pre-trained Transformer Networks via Efficient and Scalable Adversarial Perturbation
To address this challenge, we propose ScaLA, a scalable and robust method for large-batch optimization of transformer networks via adversarial perturbation.
Demystifying Hyperparameter Optimization in Federated Learning
Such data heterogeneity and privacy requirements bring unique challenges for learning hyperparameter optimization as the training dynamics change across clients even within the same training round and they are difficult to measure due to privacy constraints.
HoloFormer: Deep Compression of Pre-Trained Transforms via Unified Optimization of N:M Sparsity and Integer Quantization
In this work, we propose a unified, systematic approach to learning N:M sparsity and integer quantization for pre-trained Transformers using the Alternating Directions Method of Multipliers (ADMM).
Scalable and Efficient MoE Training for Multitask Multilingual Models
By combining the efficient system and training methods, we are able to significantly scale up large multitask multilingual models for language generation which results in a great improvement in model accuracy.
The Stability-Efficiency Dilemma: Investigating Sequence Length Warmup for Training GPT Models
To reduce the wall-clock training time, a common practice is to increase the batch size and learning rate.
LEAP: Learnable Pruning for Transformer-based Models
Moreover, in order to reduce hyperparameter tuning, a novel adaptive regularization coefficient is deployed to control the regularization penalty adaptively.
ZeRO-Infinity: Breaking the GPU Memory Wall for Extreme Scale Deep Learning
It requires 800 NVIDIA V100 GPUs just to fit a trillion parameter model for training, and such clusters are simply out of reach for most data scientists.
1-bit LAMB: Communication Efficient Large-Scale Large-Batch Training with LAMB's Convergence Speed
To this end, we design a new communication-efficient algorithm, 1-bit LAMB, which introduces a novel way to support adaptive layerwise learning rates under compression.
1-bit Adam: Communication Efficient Large-Scale Training with Adam's Convergence Speed
One of the most effective methods is error-compensated compression, which offers robust convergence speed even under 1-bit compression.
ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
By combining compute and memory efficiency with ease-of-use, ZeRO-Offload democratizes large-scale model training making it accessible to even data scientists with access to just a single GPU.
Accelerating Training of Transformer-Based Language Models with Progressive Layer Dropping
Recently, Transformer-based language models have demonstrated remarkable performance across many NLP domains.
APMSqueeze: A Communication Efficient Adam-Preconditioned Momentum SGD Algorithm
Adam is the important optimization algorithm to guarantee efficiency and accuracy for training many important tasks such as BERT and ImageNet.
SHARP: An Adaptable, Energy-Efficient Accelerator for Recurrent Neural Network
To solve these issues, we propose an intelligent tiled-based dispatching mechanism for increasing the adaptiveness of RNN computation, in order to efficiently handle the data dependencies.
Automatic Speech Recognition
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ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models
Large deep learning models offer significant accuracy gains, but training billions to trillions of parameters is challenging.
AntMan: Sparse Low-Rank Compression to Accelerate RNN inference
Wide adoption of complex RNN based models is hindered by their inference performance, cost and memory requirements.
Learning to Anneal and Prune Proximity Graphs for Similarity Search
This paper studies similarity search, which is a crucial enabler of many feature vector--based applications.
Zoom: SSD-based Vector Search for Optimizing Accuracy, Latency and Memory
With the advancement of machine learning and deep learning, vector search becomes instrumental to many information retrieval systems, to search and find best matches to user queries based on their semantic similarities. These online services require the search architecture to be both effective with high accuracy and efficient with low latency and memory footprint, which existing work fails to offer.
Navigating with Graph Representations for Fast and Scalable Decoding of Neural Language Models
Neural language models (NLMs) have recently gained a renewed interest by achieving state-of-the-art performance across many natural language processing (NLP) tasks.
Learning Intrinsic Sparse Structures within Long Short-Term Memory
This work aims to learn structurally-sparse Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) by reducing the sizes of basic structures within LSTM units, including input updates, gates, hidden states, cell states and outputs.
