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KVQuant: LLM Inference with KV Cache Quantization
Three research papers are reviewed:
1) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.18079 - KVQuant: Towards 10 Million Context Length LLM
Inference with KV Cache Quantization
2) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.02750 - KIVI: A Tuning-Free Asymmetric 2bit Quantization for KV Cache
3) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.04420 - KVTuner: Sensitivity-Aware Layer-Wise Mixed-Precision KV Cache
Quantization for Efficient and Nearly Lossless LLM Inference
These sources collectively discuss methods for quantizing Key-Value (KV) caches in large language models (LLMs) to reduce memory consumption and improve inference efficiency, especially for long context lengths. They explore various quantization strategies, highlighting the importance of per-channel quantization for Keys and per-token quantization for Values due to their distinct data distributions. Key advancements include pre-RoPE quantization, non-uniform quantization, and dense-and-sparse techniques to maintain accuracy at low bitrates, such as 2-bit and 3-bit. The papers also detail custom kernel implementations and offline calibration methods to minimize computational overhead, demonstrating significant throughput gains and increased batch sizes while preserving model performance across diverse benchmarks and LLM architectures.
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By mcgrofThree research papers are reviewed:
1) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.18079 - KVQuant: Towards 10 Million Context Length LLM
Inference with KV Cache Quantization
2) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.02750 - KIVI: A Tuning-Free Asymmetric 2bit Quantization for KV Cache
3) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.04420 - KVTuner: Sensitivity-Aware Layer-Wise Mixed-Precision KV Cache
Quantization for Efficient and Nearly Lossless LLM Inference
These sources collectively discuss methods for quantizing Key-Value (KV) caches in large language models (LLMs) to reduce memory consumption and improve inference efficiency, especially for long context lengths. They explore various quantization strategies, highlighting the importance of per-channel quantization for Keys and per-token quantization for Values due to their distinct data distributions. Key advancements include pre-RoPE quantization, non-uniform quantization, and dense-and-sparse techniques to maintain accuracy at low bitrates, such as 2-bit and 3-bit. The papers also detail custom kernel implementations and offline calibration methods to minimize computational overhead, demonstrating significant throughput gains and increased batch sizes while preserving model performance across diverse benchmarks and LLM architectures.