Awesome-LLM-Compression

Awesome LLM compression research papers and tools to accelerate the LLM training and inference.

Contents

• Papers
  • Quantization
  • Pruning/Sparsity
  • Distillation
• Tools

Papers

Quantization

• ZeroQuant: Efficient and Affordable Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale Transformers
  NeurIPS 2022 [Paper] [Code]

• LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
  NeurIPS 2022 [Paper] [Code]

• LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models
  Arxiv 2022 [Paper]

• Outlier Suppression+: Accurate quantization of large language models by equivalent and optimal shifting and scaling
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

• Quantized Distributed Training of Large Models with Convergence Guarantees
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

• SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
  ICML 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• GPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained Transformers
  ICLR 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• RPTQ: Reorder-based Post-training Quantization for Large Language Models
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• ZeroQuant-V2: Exploring Post-training Quantization in LLMs from Comprehensive Study to Low Rank Compensation
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• Integer or Floating Point? New Outlooks for Low-Bit Quantization on Large Language Models
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

• The Quantization Model of Neural Scaling
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

• Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compressed Large Language Models via sub-4-bit Integer Quantization
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

• AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression and Acceleration
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• LLM-QAT: Data-Free Quantization Aware Training for Large Language Models
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

• SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• OWQ: Lessons learned from activation outliers for weight quantization in large language models
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Pruning/Sparsity

• The Lazy Neuron Phenomenon: On Emergence of Activation Sparsity in Transformers
  ICLR 2023 [Paper]

• SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• LLM-Pruner: On the Structural Pruning of Large Language Models
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• Prune and Tune: Improving Efficient Pruning Techniques for Massive Language Models
  ICLR 2023 TinyPapers [Paper]

• Unlocking Context Constraints of LLMs: Enhancing Context Efficiency of LLMs with Self-Information-Based Content Filtering
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• Learning to Compress Prompts with Gist Tokens
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• Efficient Prompting via Dynamic In-Context Learning
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Distillation

• Lifting the Curse of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models
  ACL 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes
  ACL 2023 [Paper]

• LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• Large Language Model Distillation Doesn't Need a Teacher
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

• GPT4All: Training an Assistant-style Chatbot with Large Scale Data Distillation from GPT-3.5-Turbo
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

• PaD: Program-aided Distillation Specializes Large Models in Reasoning
  Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Tools

• BMCook: Model Compression for Big Models [Code]

• llama.cpp: Inference of LLaMA model in pure C/C++ [Code]

• LangChain: Building applications with LLMs through composability [Code]

• GPTQ-for-LLaMA: 4 bits quantization of LLaMA using GPTQ [Code]

• Alpaca-CoT: An Instruction Fine-Tuning Platform with Instruction Data Collection and Unified Large Language Models Interface [Code]