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license: mit
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**KVQuant** is a methodology for efficient KV cache quantization that incorporates several innovations to acheive accurate low-precision quantization,
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thereby enabling efficient long context length inference.
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**TLDR:** KVQuant addresses the memory bottleneck with long context length inference by quantizing the KV cache to low precision.
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KVQuant achieves high accuracy with low-precision KV cache quantization by considering several consistent patterns observed in cached KV values across different LLMs,
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and by developing methods to exploit these patterns, including:
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- **Per-channel, Pre-RoPE** Key quantization to better match the outlier channels in Keys
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- Non-Uniform Quantization (**NUQ**) to better represent the non-uniform activations
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- **Dense-and-Sparse Quantization** to mitigate the impacts of numerical outliers on quantization difficulty
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- **Q-Norm** to mitigate distribution shift at ultra low precisions (eg. 2-bit)
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- **Attention-Sink Aware Quantization** to avoid quantization error with the first token, which is disproportionately sensitive to quantization error
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For more details please check out our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.18079.pdf).
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## Model description
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Quantizer file for running DBRX with 3-bit KV cache using KVQuant.
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* **Base Model:** [DBRX-Instruct](https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm)
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* **Bitwidth:** 3-bit
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* **Sparsity Level:** 1%
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## Links
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* **Paper**: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.18079.pdf](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.18079.pdf)
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* **Code**: [https://github.com/SqueezeAILab/KVQuant](https://github.com/SqueezeAILab/KVQuant)
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license: mit
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