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Pre-trained transformers have recently clinched top spots in the gamut of natural language tasks and pioneered solutions to software engineering tasks. Even information retrieval has not been immune to the charm of the transformer, though…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Colin B. Clement , Chen Wu , Dawn Drain , Neel Sundaresan

Recently, pre-trained Transformer based language models such as BERT and GPT, have shown great improvement in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, these models contain a large amount of parameters. The emergence of even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Ofir Zafrir , Guy Boudoukh , Peter Izsak , Moshe Wasserblat

Deploying pre-trained transformer models like BERT on downstream tasks in resource-constrained scenarios is challenging due to their high inference cost, which grows rapidly with input sequence length. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Junyan Li , Li Lyna Zhang , Jiahang Xu , Yujing Wang , Shaoguang Yan , Yunqing Xia , Yuqing Yang , Ting Cao , Hao Sun , Weiwei Deng , Qi Zhang , Mao Yang

The extensive amounts of data required for training deep neural networks pose significant challenges on storage and transmission fronts. Dataset distillation has emerged as a promising technique to condense the information of massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ali Abbasi , Ashkan Shahbazi , Hamed Pirsiavash , Soheil Kolouri

In this work, we quantize a trained Transformer machine language translation model leveraging INT8/VNNI instructions in the latest Intel$^\circledR$ Xeon$^\circledR$ Cascade Lake processors to improve inference performance while maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Aishwarya Bhandare , Vamsi Sripathi , Deepthi Karkada , Vivek Menon , Sun Choi , Kushal Datta , Vikram Saletore

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved great success in many visual recognition tasks. However, existing deep neural network models are computationally expensive and memory intensive, hindering their deployment in devices with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yu Cheng , Duo Wang , Pan Zhou , Tao Zhang

Long-context inference for Large Language Models (LLMs) is heavily limited by high computational demands. While several existing methods optimize attention computation, they still process the full set of hidden states at each layer,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lingkun Long , Rubing Yang , Yushi Huang , Desheng Hui , Ao Zhou , Jianlei Yang

Dataset distillation aims to find a synthetic training set such that training on the synthetic data achieves similar performance to training on real data, with orders of magnitude less computational requirements. Existing methods can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Hong Ye Tan , Emma Slade

Deploying large and complex deep neural networks on resource-constrained edge devices poses significant challenges due to their computational demands and the complexities of non-convex optimization. Traditional compression methods such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Prateek Varshney , Mert Pilanci

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance and tremendous potential across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these models has been challenging due to the astronomical amount of model parameters, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Haihao Shen , Hanwen Chang , Bo Dong , Yu Luo , Hengyu Meng

Pruning is an effective way to reduce the huge inference cost of Transformer models. However, prior work on pruning Transformers requires retraining the models. This can add high training cost and high complexity to model deployment, making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Woosuk Kwon , Sehoon Kim , Michael W. Mahoney , Joseph Hassoun , Kurt Keutzer , Amir Gholami

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved notable success in many speech processing tasks, but the large model size and heavy computational cost hinder the deployment. Knowledge distillation trains a small student model to mimic the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yifan Peng , Yui Sudo , Shakeel Muhammad , Shinji Watanabe

Recent advances in diffusion generative models have yielded remarkable progress. While the quality of generated content continues to improve, these models have grown considerably in size and complexity. This increasing computational burden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Reza Shirkavand , Peiran Yu , Shangqian Gao , Gowthami Somepalli , Tom Goldstein , Heng Huang

Efficient deployment of large audio-language models for speech translation remains challenging due to their significant computational requirements. In this paper, we address this challenge through our system submissions to the "Model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yasmin Moslem

Deep language models such as BERT pre-trained on large corpus have given a huge performance boost to the state-of-the-art information retrieval ranking systems. Knowledge embedded in such models allows them to pick up complex matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Luyu Gao , Zhuyun Dai , Jamie Callan

As language models increase in size by the day, methods for efficient inference are critical to leveraging their capabilities for various applications. Prior work has investigated techniques like model pruning, knowledge distillation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yushan Su , Vishvak Murahari , Karthik Narasimhan , Kai Li

The breakthrough performance of large language models (LLMs) comes with major computational footprints and high deployment costs. In this paper, we progress towards resolving this problem by proposing a novel structured compression approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Eldar Kurtic , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Knowledge distillation offers a transformative pathway to developing powerful, yet efficient, small language models (SLMs) suitable for resource-constrained environments. In this paper, we benchmark the performance and computational cost of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sachin Gopal Wani , Eric Page , Ajay Dholakia , David Ellison

Large Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results in neural machine translation and have become standard in the field. In this work, we look for the optimal combination of known techniques to optimize inference speed without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Yi-Te Hsu , Sarthak Garg , Yi-Hsiu Liao , Ilya Chatsviorkin

In recent years, large language models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, deploying these models for real-world applications often requires efficient inference solutions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ditto PS , Jithin VG , Adarsh MS