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PIM-LLM: A High-Throughput Hybrid PIM Architecture for 1-bit LLMs

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arxiv 2504.01994 v1 pith:2XD6IYPJ submitted 2025-03-31 cs.AR cs.AI

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keywords pim-llmllmsaccelerateacceleratorsarchitecturegopshybridimprovement
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In this paper, we propose PIM-LLM, a hybrid architecture developed to accelerate 1-bit large language models (LLMs). PIM-LLM leverages analog processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures and digital systolic arrays to accelerate low-precision matrix multiplication (MatMul) operations in projection layers and high-precision MatMul operations in attention heads of 1-bit LLMs, respectively. Our design achieves up to roughly 80x improvement in tokens per second and a 70% increase in tokens per joule compared to conventional hardware accelerators. Additionally, PIM-LLM outperforms previous PIM-based LLM accelerators, setting a new benchmark with at least 2x and 5x improvement in GOPS and GOPS/W, respectively.

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