Model Compression News Today

Never before in my life had I seen so many smart people working on the same goal: making LLMs better. After talking to many people working in both industry and academia, I noticed the 10 major research directions that emerged. The first two directions, hallucinations and context learning, are probably the most talked about today. I’m the most excited about numbers 3 (multimodality), 5 (new architecture), and 6 (GPU alternatives).

Large transformer models are mainstream nowadays, creating SoTA results for a variety of tasks. They are powerful but very expensive to train and use. The extremely high inference cost, in both time and memory, is a big bottleneck for adopting a powerful transformer for solving real-world tasks at scale. Why is it hard to run inference for large transformer models? Besides the increasing size of SoTA models, there are two main factors contributing to the inference challenge (Pope et al.

Edge intelligence is an emerging technology that integrates edge computing and deep learning to bring AI to the network’s edge. It has gained wide attention for its lower network latency and better privacy preservation abilities. However, the inference of deep neural networks is computationally demanding and results in poor real-time performance, making it challenging for resource-constrained edge devices. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical deep learning model based on TreeNet to reduce ...

Deep learning has achieved remarkable successes in various areas such as computer vision and natural language processing. Many sophisticated models have been proposed to improve performance by designing a significant number of layers of neurons. As an emerging research area, edge intelligence tries to bring intelligence to the network edge by integrating edge computing and AI technologies and it has gained wide attention for its lower latency and better privacy preservation features. Nevertheles...