Accelerating GPU Inference of Large Language Models with Moderately Unstructured Sparse Weight Matrices
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arXiv:2607.08786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing deployment of large language models (LLMs), LLM inference cost has become a key challenge. Pruning techniques that introduce sparsity into weight matrices can accelerate inference. However, maintaining model quality typically limits pruning to moderate unstructured sparsity (around 50\%). At these sparsity levels, none of the existing GPU kernels for sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) can outperform their dense counterparts. This…
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- arXiv:2607.08786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing deployment of large language models (LLMs), LLM inference cost has become a key challenge.
- Pruning techniques that introduce sparsity into weight matrices can accelerate inference.
- However, maintaining model quality typically limits pruning to moderate unstructured sparsity (around 50\%).
- At these sparsity levels, none of the existing GPU kernels for sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) can outperform their dense counterparts.
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