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QUICK: Quantization-aware Interleaving and Conflict-free Kernel for efficient LLM inference

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arxiv 2402.10076 v1 pith:GWEQCPAT submitted 2024-02-15 cs.LG cs.AIcs.CL

classification cs.LGcs.AIcs.CL
keywords kernelsquickefficientinferencellmsmemorymodelsquantized
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We introduce QUICK, a group of novel optimized CUDA kernels for the efficient inference of quantized Large Language Models (LLMs). QUICK addresses the shared memory bank-conflict problem of state-of-the-art mixed precision matrix multiplication kernels. Our method interleaves the quantized weight matrices of LLMs offline to skip the shared memory write-back after the dequantization. We demonstrate up to 1.91x speedup over existing kernels of AutoAWQ on larger batches and up to 1.94x throughput gain on representative LLM models on various NVIDIA GPU devices.

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