Awesome-LLM-Inference: A curated list of 📙Awesome LLM Inference Papers with Codes, check 📖Contents for more details. This repo is still updated frequently ~ 👨💻 Welcome to star ⭐️ or submit a PR to this repo!
@misc{Awesome-LLM-Inference@2024,
title={Awesome-LLM-Inference: A curated list of Awesome LLM Inference Papers with codes},
url={https://github.com/DefTruth/Awesome-LLM-Inference},
note={Open-source software available at https://github.com/DefTruth/Awesome-LLM-Inference},
author={DefTruth, liyucheng09 etc},
year={2024}
}
Awesome LLM Inference for Beginners.pdf: 500 pages, FastServe, FlashAttention 1/2, FlexGen, FP8, LLM.int8(), PagedAttention, RoPE, SmoothQuant, WINT8/4, Continuous Batching, ZeroQuant 1/2/FP, AWQ etc.
- 📖Trending LLM/LMM Topics🔥🔥🔥
- 📖LLM Algorithmic/Eval Survey
- 📖LLM Train/Inference Framework
- 📖Weight/Activation Quantize/Compress🔥
- 📖Continuous/In-flight Batching
- 📖IO/FLOPs-Aware/Sparse Attention🔥
- 📖KV Cache Scheduling/Quantize/Dropping🔥
- 📖Prompt/Context Compression🔥
- 📖Long Context Attention/KV Cache Optimization🔥🔥
- 📖Early-Exit/Intermediate Layer Decoding
- 📖Parallel Decoding/Sampling🔥
- 📖Structured Prune/KD/Weight Sparse
- 📖Mixture-of-Experts(MoE) LLM Inference🔥
- 📖CPU/Single GPU/FPGA/Mobile Inference
- 📖Non Transformer Architecture🔥
- 📖GEMM/Tensor Cores/WMMA/Parallel
- 📖Position Embed/Others
📖Trending LLM/LMM Topics (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
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| 2024.04 | 🔥🔥🔥[Open-Sora] Open-Sora: Democratizing Efficient Video Production for All(@hpcaitech) | [docs] | [Open-Sora]  |
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| 2024.04 | 🔥🔥🔥[Open-Sora Plan] Open-Sora Plan: This project aim to reproduce Sora (Open AI T2V model)(@PKU) | [report] | [Open-Sora-Plan]  |
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| 2024.05 | 🔥🔥🔥[DeepSeek-V2] DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model(@DeepSeek-AI) | [pdf] | [DeepSeek-V2]  |
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| 2024.05 | 🔥🔥[YOCO] You Only Cache Once: Decoder-Decoder Architectures for Language Models(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | [unilm-YOCO]  |
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📖LLM Algorithmic/Eval Survey (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023.10 | [Evaluating] Evaluating Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey(@tju.edu.cn) | [pdf] | [Awesome-LLMs-Evaluation]  |
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| 2023.11 | 🔥[Runtime Performance] Dissecting the Runtime Performance of the Training, Fine-tuning, and Inference of Large Language Models(@hkust-gz.edu.cn) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.11 | [ChatGPT Anniversary] ChatGPT’s One-year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching up?(@e.ntu.edu.sg) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [Algorithmic Survey] The Efficiency Spectrum of Large Language Models: An Algorithmic Survey(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [Security and Privacy] A Survey on Large Language Model (LLM) Security and Privacy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(@Drexel University) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | 🔥[LLMCompass] A Hardware Evaluation Framework for Large Language Model Inference(@princeton.edu) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | 🔥[Efficient LLMs] Efficient Large Language Models: A Survey(@Ohio State University etc) | [pdf] | [Efficient-LLMs-Survey]  |
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| 2023.12 | [Serving Survey] Towards Efficient Generative Large Language Model Serving: A Survey from Algorithms to Systems(@Carnegie Mellon University) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.01 | [Understanding LLMs] Understanding LLMs: A Comprehensive Overview from Training to Inference(@Shaanxi Normal University etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.02 | [LLM-Viewer] LLM Inference Unveiled: Survey and Roofline Model Insights(@Zhihang Yuan etc) | [pdf] | [LLM-Viewer]  |
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📖LLM Train/Inference Framework (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020.05 | 🔥[Megatron-LM] Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism(@NVIDIA) | [pdf] | [Megatron-LM]  |
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| 2023.03 | [FlexGen] High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU(@Stanford University etc) | [pdf] | [FlexGen]  |
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| 2023.05 | [SpecInfer] Accelerating Generative Large Language Model Serving with Speculative Inference and Token Tree Verification(@Peking University etc) | [pdf] | [FlexFlow]  |
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| 2023.05 | [FastServe] Fast Distributed Inference Serving for Large Language Models(@Peking University etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.09 | 🔥[vLLM] Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention(@UC Berkeley etc) | [pdf] | [vllm]  |
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| 2023.09 | [StreamingLLM] EFFICIENT STREAMING LANGUAGE MODELS WITH ATTENTION SINKS(@Meta AI etc) | [pdf] | [streaming-llm]  |
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| 2023.09 | [Medusa] Medusa: Simple Framework for Accelerating LLM Generation with Multiple Decoding Heads(@Tianle Cai etc) | [blog] | [Medusa]  |
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| 2023.10 | 🔥[TensorRT-LLM] NVIDIA TensorRT LLM(@NVIDIA) | [docs] | [TensorRT-LLM]  |
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| 2023.11 | 🔥[DeepSpeed-FastGen 2x vLLM?] DeepSpeed-FastGen: High-throughput Text Generation for LLMs via MII and DeepSpeed-Inference(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | [deepspeed-fastgen]  |
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| 2023.12 | 🔥[PETALS] Distributed Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Language Models Over The Internet(@HSE Univesity etc) | [pdf] | [petals]  |
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| 2023.10 | [LightSeq] LightSeq: Sequence Level Parallelism for Distributed Training of Long Context Transformers(@UC Berkeley etc) | [pdf] | [LightSeq]  |
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| 2023.12 | [PowerInfer] PowerInfer: Fast Large Language Model Serving with a Consumer-grade GPU(@SJTU) | [pdf] | [PowerInfer]  |
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| 2024.01 | [inferflow]INFERFLOW: AN EFFICIENT AND HIGHLY CONFIGURABLE INFERENCE ENGINE FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS(@Tencent AI Lab) | [pdf] | [inferflow]  |
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📖Continuous/In-flight Batching (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022.07 | 🔥[Continuous Batching] Orca: A Distributed Serving System for Transformer-Based Generative Models(@Seoul National University etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.10 | 🔥[In-flight Batching] NVIDIA TensorRT LLM Batch Manager(@NVIDIA) | [docs] | [TensorRT-LLM] |
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| 2023.11 | 🔥[DeepSpeed-FastGen 2x vLLM?] DeepSpeed-FastGen: High-throughput Text Generation for LLMs via MII and DeepSpeed-Inference(@Microsoft) | [blog] | [deepspeed-fastgen] |
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| 2023.11 | [Splitwise] Splitwise: Efficient Generative LLM Inference Using Phase Splitting(@Microsoft etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [SpotServe] SpotServe: Serving Generative Large Language Models on Preemptible Instances(@cmu.edu etc) | [pdf] | [SpotServe]  |
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| 2023.10 | [LightSeq] LightSeq: Sequence Level Parallelism for Distributed Training of Long Context Transformers(@UC Berkeley etc) | [pdf] | [LightSeq] |
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📖Weight/Activation Quantize/Compress (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022.06 | 🔥[ZeroQuant] Efficient and Affordable Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale Transformers(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | [DeepSpeed] |
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| 2022.08 | [FP8-Quantization] FP8 Quantization: The Power of the Exponent(@Qualcomm AI Research) | [pdf] | [FP8-quantization]  |
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| 2022.08 | [LLM.int8()] 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale(@Facebook AI Research etc) | [pdf] | [bitsandbytes]  |
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| 2022.10 | 🔥[GPTQ] GPTQ: ACCURATE POST-TRAINING QUANTIZATION FOR GENERATIVE PRE-TRAINED TRANSFORMERS(@IST Austria etc) | [pdf] | [gptq]  |
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| 2022.11 | 🔥[WINT8/4] Who Says Elephants Can’t Run: Bringing Large Scale MoE Models into Cloud Scale Production(@NVIDIA&Microsoft) | [pdf] | [FasterTransformer]  |
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| 2022.11 | 🔥[SmoothQuant] Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models(@MIT etc) | [pdf] | [smoothquant]  |
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| 2023.03 | [ZeroQuant-V2] Exploring Post-training Quantization in LLMs from Comprehensive Study to Low Rank Compensation(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | [DeepSpeed] |
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| 2023.06 | 🔥[AWQ] AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression and Acceleration(@MIT etc) | [pdf] | [llm-awq]  |
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| 2023.06 | [SpQR] SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression(@University of Washington etc) | [pdf] | [SpQR]  |
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| 2023.06 | [SqueezeLLM] SQUEEZELLM: DENSE-AND-SPARSE QUANTIZATION(@berkeley.edu) | [pdf] | [SqueezeLLM]  |
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| 2023.07 | [ZeroQuant-FP] A Leap Forward in LLMs Post-Training W4A8 Quantization Using Floating-Point Formats(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | [DeepSpeed] |
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| 2023.09 | [KV Cache FP8 WINT4] Exploration on LLM inference performance optimization(@HPC4AI) | [blog] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.10 | [FP8-LM] FP8-LM: Training FP8 Large Language Models(@Microsoft etc) | [pdf] | [MS-AMP]  |
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| 2023.10 | [LLM-Shearing] SHEARED LLAMA: ACCELERATING LANGUAGE MODEL PRE-TRAINING VIA STRUCTURED PRUNING(@cs.princeton.edu etc) | [pdf] | [LLM-Shearing]  |
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| 2023.10 | [LLM-FP4] LLM-FP4: 4-Bit Floating-Point Quantized Transformers(@ust.hk&meta etc) | [pdf] | [LLM-FP4]  |
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| 2023.11 | [2-bit LLM] Enabling Fast 2-bit LLM on GPUs: Memory Alignment, Sparse Outlier, and Asynchronous Dequantization(@Shanghai Jiao Tong University etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [SmoothQuant ] SmoothQuant : Accurate and Efficient 4-bit Post-Training Weight Quantization for LLM(@ZTE Corporation) | [pdf] | [smoothquantplus]  |
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| 2023.11 | [OdysseyLLM W4A8] A Speed Odyssey for Deployable Quantization of LLMs(@meituan.com) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | 🔥[SparQ] SPARQ ATTENTION: BANDWIDTH-EFFICIENT LLM INFERENCE(@graphcore.ai) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [Agile-Quant] Agile-Quant: Activation-Guided Quantization for Faster Inference of LLMs on the Edge(@Northeastern University&Oracle) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [CBQ] CBQ: Cross-Block Quantization for Large Language Models(@ustc.edu.cn) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.10 | [QLLM] QLLM: ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT LOW-BITWIDTH QUANTIZATION FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS(@ZIP Lab&SenseTime Research etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.01 | [FP6-LLM] FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-Centric Algorithm-System Co-Design(@Microsoft etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.05 | 🔥🔥[W4A8KV4] QServe: W4A8KV4 Quantization and System Co-design for Efficient LLM Serving(@MIT&NVIDIA) | [pdf] | [qserve]  |
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📖IO/FLOPs-Aware/Sparse Attention (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018.05 | [Online Softmax] Online normalizer calculation for softmax(@NVIDIA) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2019.11 | 🔥[MQA] Fast Transformer Decoding: One Write-Head is All You Need(@Google) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2020.10 | [Hash Attention] REFORMER: THE EFFICIENT TRANSFORMER(@Google) | [pdf] | [reformer]  |
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| 2022.05 | 🔥[FlashAttention] Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness(@Stanford University etc) | [pdf] | [flash-attention]  |
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| 2022.10 | [Online Softmax] SELF-ATTENTION DOES NOT NEED O(n^2) MEMORY(@Google) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.05 | [FlashAttention] From Online Softmax to FlashAttention(@cs.washington.edu) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.05 | [FLOP, I/O] Dissecting Batching Effects in GPT Inference(@Lequn Chen) | [blog] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.05 | 🔥🔥[GQA] GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints(@Google) | [pdf] | [flaxformer]  |
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| 2023.06 | [Sparse FlashAttention] Faster Causal Attention Over Large Sequences Through Sparse Flash Attention(@EPFL etc) | [pdf] | [dynamic-sparse-flash-attention]  |
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| 2023.07 | 🔥[FlashAttention-2] Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning(@Stanford University etc) | [pdf] | [flash-attention] |
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| 2023.10 | 🔥[Flash-Decoding] Flash-Decoding for long-context inference(@Stanford University etc) | [blog] | [flash-attention] |
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| 2023.11 | [Flash-Decoding ] FLASHDECODING : FASTER LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL INFERENCE ON GPUS(@Tsinghua University&Infinigence-AI) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.01 | [SparseGPT] SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot(@ISTA etc) | [pdf] | [sparsegpt]  |
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| 2023.12 | 🔥[GLA] Gated Linear Attention Transformers with Hardware-Efficient Training(@MIT-IBM Watson AI) | [pdf] | gated_linear_attention  |
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| 2023.12 | [SCCA] SCCA: Shifted Cross Chunk Attention for long contextual semantic expansion(@Beihang University) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | 🔥[FlashLLM] LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory(@Apple) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.03 | 🔥🔥[CHAI] CHAI: Clustered Head Attention for Efficient LLM Inference(@cs.wisc.edu etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.04 | [Flash Tree Attention] DEFT: FLASH TREE-ATTENTION WITH IO-AWARENESS FOR EFFICIENT TREE-SEARCH-BASED LLM INFERENCE(@Westlake University etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ |
📖KV Cache Scheduling/Quantize/Dropping (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019.11 | 🔥[MQA] Fast Transformer Decoding: One Write-Head is All You Need(@Google) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2022.06 | [LTP] Learned Token Pruning for Transformers(@UC Berkeley etc) | [pdf] | [LTP]  |
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| 2023.05 | 🔥🔥[GQA] GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints(@Google) | [pdf] | [flaxformer] |
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| 2023.05 | [KV Cache Compress] Scissorhands: Exploiting the Persistence of Importance Hypothesis for LLM KV Cache Compression at Test Time(@) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.06 | [H2O] H2O: Heavy-Hitter Oracle for Efficient Generative Inference of Large Language Models(@Rice University etc) | [pdf] | [H2O]  |
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| 2023.06 | [QK-Sparse/Dropping Attention] Faster Causal Attention Over Large Sequences Through Sparse Flash Attention(@EPFL etc) | [pdf] | [dynamic-sparse-flash-attention] |
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| 2023.08 | 🔥🔥[Chunked Prefills] SARATHI: Efficient LLM Inference by Piggybacking Decodes with Chunked Prefills(@Microsoft etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.09 | 🔥🔥[PagedAttention] Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention(@UC Berkeley etc) | [pdf] | [vllm] |
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| 2023.09 | [KV Cache FP8 WINT4] Exploration on LLM inference performance optimization(@HPC4AI) | [blog] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.10 | 🔥[TensorRT-LLM KV Cache FP8] NVIDIA TensorRT LLM(@NVIDIA) | [docs] | [TensorRT-LLM] |
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| 2023.10 | 🔥[Adaptive KV Cache Compress] MODEL TELLS YOU WHAT TO DISCARD: ADAPTIVE KV CACHE COMPRESSION FOR LLMS(@illinois.eduµsoft) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.10 | [CacheGen] CacheGen: Fast Context Loading for Language Model Applications(@Chicago University&Microsoft) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [KV-Cache Optimizations] Leveraging Speculative Sampling and KV-Cache Optimizations Together for Generative AI using OpenVINO(@Haim Barad etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [KV Cache Compress with LoRA] Compressed Context Memory for Online Language Model Interaction (@SNU & NAVER AI) | [pdf] | [Compressed-Context-Memory]  |
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| 2023.12 | 🔥🔥[RadixAttention] Efficiently Programming Large Language Models using SGLang(@Stanford University etc) | [pdf] | [sglang]  |
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| 2024.01 | 🔥🔥[DistKV-LLM] Infinite-LLM: Efficient LLM Service for Long Context with DistAttention and Distributed KVCache(@Alibaba etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.02 | 🔥🔥[Prompt Caching] Efficient Prompt Caching via Embedding Similarity(@UC Berkeley) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.02 | 🔥🔥[Less] Get More with LESS: Synthesizing Recurrence with KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLM Inference(@CMU etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.02 | 🔥🔥[MiKV] No Token Left Behind: Reliable KV Cache Compression via Importance-Aware Mixed Precision Quantization(@KAIST) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.02 | 🔥🔥[Shared Prefixes] Hydragen: High-Throughput LLM Inference with Shared Prefixes | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.02 | 🔥🔥[ChunkAttention] ChunkAttention: Efficient Self-Attention with Prefix-Aware KV Cache and Two-Phase Partition(@microsoft.com) | [pdf] | [chunk-attention]  |
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| 2024.03 | 🔥[QAQ] QAQ: Quality Adaptive Quantization for LLM KV Cache(@@smail.nju.edu.cn) | [pdf] | [QAQ-KVCacheQuantization]  |
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| 2024.03 | 🔥🔥[DMC] Dynamic Memory Compression: Retrofitting LLMs for Accelerated Inference(@NVIDIA etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.03 | 🔥🔥[Keyformer] Keyformer: KV Cache reduction through key tokens selection for Efficient Generative Inference(@ece.ubc.ca etc) | [pdf] | [Keyformer]  |
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| 2024.03 | [FASTDECODE] FASTDECODE: High-Throughput GPU-Efficient LLM Serving using Heterogeneous(@Tsinghua University) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.03 | [Sparsity-Aware KV Caching] ALISA: Accelerating Large Language Model Inference via Sparsity-Aware KV Caching(@ucf.edu) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.03 | 🔥[GEAR] GEAR: An Efficient KV Cache Compression Recipe for Near-Lossless Generative Inference of LLM(@gatech.edu) | [pdf] | [GEAR]  |
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| 2024.04 | [SqueezeAttention] SQUEEZEATTENTION: 2D Management of KV-Cache in LLM Inference via Layer-wise Optimal Budget(@lzu.edu.cn etc) | [pdf] | [SqueezeAttention]  |
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| 2024.04 | [SnapKV] SnapKV: LLM Knows What You are Looking for Before Generation(@UIUC) | [pdf] | [SnapKV]  |
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| 2024.05 | 🔥[vAttention] vAttention: Dynamic Memory Management for Serving LLMs without PagedAttention(@Microsoft Research India) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.05 | [KVCache-1Bit] KV Cache is 1 Bit Per Channel: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Coupled Quantization(@Rice University) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.05 | [KV-Runahead] KV-Runahead: Scalable Causal LLM Inference by Parallel Key-Value Cache Generation(@Apple etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ |
📖Prompt/Context Compression (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023.04 | 🔥[Selective-Context] Compressing Context to Enhance Inference Efficiency of Large Language Models(@Surrey) | [pdf] | Selective-Context  |
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| 2023.05 | [AutoCompressor] Adapting Language Models to Compress Contextss(@Princeton) | [pdf] | AutoCompressor  |
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| 2023.10 | 🔥[LLMLingua] LLMLingua: Compressing Prompts for Accelerated Inference of Large Language Models(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | LLMLingua  |
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| 2023.10 | 🔥🔥[LongLLMLingua] LongLLMLingua: Accelerating and Enhancing LLMs in Long Context Scenarios via Prompt Compression(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | LLMLingua |
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| 2024.03 | 🔥[LLMLingua-2] LLMLingua-2: Data Distillation for Efficient and Faithful Task-Agnostic Prompt Compression(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | LLMLingua series |
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📖Long Context Attention/KV Cache Optimization (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023.05 | 🔥🔥[Blockwise Attention] Blockwise Parallel Transformer for Large Context Models(@UC Berkeley) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.05 | 🔥[Landmark Attention] Random-Access Infinite Context Length for Transformers(@epfl.ch) | [pdf] | landmark-attention  |
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| 2023.07 | 🔥[LightningAttention-1] TRANSNORMERLLM: A FASTER AND BETTER LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL WITH IMPROVED TRANSNORMER(@OpenNLPLab) | [pdf] | TransnormerLLM  |
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| 2023.07 | 🔥[LightningAttention-2] Lightning Attention-2: A Free Lunch for Handling Unlimited Sequence Lengths in Large Language Models(@OpenNLPLab) | [pdf] | lightning-attention  |
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| 2023.10 | 🔥🔥[RingAttention] Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context(@UC Berkeley) | [pdf] | [RingAttention]  |
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| 2023.11 | 🔥[HyperAttention] HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time(@yale&Google) | [pdf] | hyper-attn  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2023.11 | [Streaming Attention] One Pass Streaming Algorithm for Super Long Token Attention Approximation in Sublinear Space(@Adobe Research etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.11 | 🔥[Prompt Cache] PROMPT CACHE: MODULAR ATTENTION REUSE FOR LOW-LATENCY INFERENCE(@Yale University etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.11 | 🔥🔥[StripedAttention] STRIPED ATTENTION: FASTER RING ATTENTION FOR CAUSAL TRANSFORMERS(@MIT etc) | [pdf] | [striped_attention]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2024.01 | 🔥🔥[KVQuant] KVQuant: Towards 10 Million Context Length LLM Inference with KV Cache Quantization(@UC Berkeley) | [pdf] | [KVQuant]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2024.02 | 🔥[RelayAttention] RelayAttention for Efficient Large Language Model Serving with Long System Prompts(@sensetime.com etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.04 | 🔥🔥[Infini-attention] Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention(@Google) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.04 | 🔥🔥[RAGCache] RAGCache: Efficient Knowledge Caching for Retrieval-Augmented Generation(@Peking University&ByteDance Inc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.04 | 🔥🔥[KCache] EFFICIENT LLM INFERENCE WITH KCACHE(@Qiaozhi He, Zhihua Wu) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2024.05 | 🔥🔥[YOCO] You Only Cache Once: Decoder-Decoder Architectures for Language Models(@Microsoft) | [pdf] | [unilm-YOCO] |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2024.05 | 🔥🔥[SQKV] SKVQ: Sliding-window Key and Value Cache Quantization for Large Language Models(@Shanghai AI Laboratory) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ |
📖Early-Exit/Intermediate Layer Decoding (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020.04 | [DeeBERT] DeeBERT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference(@uwaterloo.ca) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2021.06 | [BERxiT] BERxiT: Early Exiting for BERT with Better Fine-Tuning and Extension to Regression(@uwaterloo.ca) | [pdf] | [berxit]  |
⭐️ |
| 2023.10 | 🔥[LITE] Accelerating LLaMA Inference by Enabling Intermediate Layer Decoding via Instruction Tuning with LITE(@Arizona State University) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | 🔥🔥[EE-LLM] EE-LLM: Large-Scale Training and Inference of Early-Exit Large Language Models with 3D Parallelism(@alibaba-inc.com) | [pdf] | [EE-LLM]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2023.10 | 🔥[FREE] Fast and Robust Early-Exiting Framework for Autoregressive Language Models with Synchronized Parallel Decoding(@KAIST AI&AWS AI) | [pdf] | [fast_robust_early_exit]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
📖Parallel Decoding/Sampling (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018.11 | 🔥[Parallel Decoding] Blockwise Parallel Decoding for Deep Autoregressive Models(@Berkeley&Google) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.02 | 🔥[Speculative Sampling] Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling(@DeepMind) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.05 | 🔥[Speculative Sampling] Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding(@Google Research etc) | [pdf] | [LLMSpeculativeSampling]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2023.09 | 🔥[Medusa] Medusa: Simple Framework for Accelerating LLM Generation with Multiple Decoding Heads(@Tianle Cai etc) | [pdf] | [Medusa] |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2023.10 | [OSD] Online Speculative Decoding(@UC Berkeley etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [Cascade Speculative] Cascade Speculative Drafting for Even Faster LLM Inference(@illinois.edu) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.02 | 🔥[LookaheadDecoding] Break the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using LOOKAHEAD DECODING(@UCSD&Google&UC Berkeley) | [pdf] | [LookaheadDecoding]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2024.02 | 🔥🔥[Speculative Decoding] Decoding Speculative Decoding(@cs.wisc.edu) | [pdf] | Decoding Speculative Decoding  |
⭐️ |
| 2024.04 | 🔥🔥[TriForce] TriForce: Lossless Acceleration of Long Sequence Generation with Hierarchical Speculative Decoding(@cmu.edu&Meta AI) | [pdf] | [TriForce]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2024.04 | 🔥🔥[Hidden Transfer] Parallel Decoding via Hidden Transfer for Lossless Large Language Model Acceleration(@pku.edu.cn etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ |
📖Structured Prune/KD/Weight Sparse (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023.12 | [FLAP] Fluctuation-based Adaptive Structured Pruning for Large Language Models(@Chinese Academy of Sciences etc) | [pdf] | [FLAP]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2023.12 | 🔥[LASER] The Truth is in There: Improving Reasoning in Language Models with Layer-Selective Rank Reduction(@mit.edu) | [pdf] | [laser]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2023.12 | [PowerInfer] PowerInfer: Fast Large Language Model Serving with a Consumer-grade GPU(@SJTU) | [pdf] | [PowerInfer] |
⭐️ |
| 2024.01 | [Admm Pruning] Fast and Optimal Weight Update for Pruned Large Language Models(@fmph.uniba.sk) | [pdf] | [admm-pruning]  |
⭐️ |
| 2024.01 | [FFSplit] FFSplit: Split Feed-Forward Network For Optimizing Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-off in Language Model Inference(@1Rice University etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ |
📖Mixture-of-Experts(MoE) LLM Inference (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022.11 | 🔥[WINT8/4] Who Says Elephants Can’t Run: Bringing Large Scale MoE Models into Cloud Scale Production(@NVIDIA&Microsoft) | [pdf] | [FasterTransformer] |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2023.12 | 🔥 [Mixtral Offloading] Fast Inference of Mixture-of-Experts Language Models with Offloading(@Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology etc) | [pdf] | [mixtral-offloading]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2024.01 | [MoE-Mamba] MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts(@uw.edu.pl) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.04 | [MoE Inference] Toward Inference-optimal Mixture-of-Expert Large Language Models(@UC San Diego etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.05 | 🔥🔥🔥[DeepSeek-V2] DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model(@DeepSeek-AI) | [pdf] | [DeepSeek-V2] |
⭐️⭐️ |
📖CPU/Single GPU/FPGA/Mobile Inference (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023.03 | [FlexGen] High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU(@Stanford University etc) | [pdf] | [FlexGen] |
⭐️ |
| 2023.11 | [LLM CPU Inference] Efficient LLM Inference on CPUs(@intel) | [pdf] | [intel-extension-for-transformers]  |
⭐️ |
| 2023.12 | [LinguaLinked] LinguaLinked: A Distributed Large Language Model Inference System for Mobile Devices(@University of California Irvine) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.12 | [OpenVINO] Leveraging Speculative Sampling and KV-Cache Optimizations Together for Generative AI using OpenVINO(@Haim Barad etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.03 | [FlightLLM] FlightLLM: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with a Complete Mapping Flow on FPGAs(@Infinigence-AI) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2024.03 | [Transformer-Lite] Transformer-Lite: High-efficiency Deployment of Large Language Models on Mobile Phone GPUs(@OPPO) | [pdf] | ⭐️ |
📖Non Transformer Architecture (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023.05 | 🔥🔥[RWKV] RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era(@Bo Peng etc) | [pdf] | [RWKV-LM]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2023.12 | 🔥🔥[Mamba] Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces(@cs.cmu.edu etc) | [pdf] | [mamba]  |
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📖GEMM/Tensor Cores/WMMA/Parallel (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018.03 | [Tensor Core] NVIDIA Tensor Core Programmability, Performance & Precision(@KTH Royal etc) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2022.06 | [Microbenchmark] Dissecting Tensor Cores via Microbenchmarks: Latency, Throughput and Numeric Behaviors(@tue.nl etc) | [pdf] | [DissectingTensorCores]  |
⭐️ |
| 2022.09 | [FP8] FP8 FORMATS FOR DEEP LEARNING(@NVIDIA) | [pdf] | ⭐️ | |
| 2023.08 | [Tensor Cores] Reducing shared memory footprint to leverage high throughput on Tensor Cores and its flexible API extension library(@Tokyo Institute etc) | [pdf] | [wmma_extension]  |
⭐️ |
| 2024.02 | [QUICK] QUICK: Quantization-aware Interleaving and Conflict-free Kernel for efficient LLM inference(@SqueezeBits Inc) | [pdf] | [QUICK]  |
⭐️⭐️ |
| 2024.02 | [Tensor Parallel] TP-AWARE DEQUANTIZATION(@IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) | [pdf] | ⭐️ |
📖Position Embed/Others (©️back👆🏻)
| Date | Title | Paper | Code | Recom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021.04 | 🔥[RoPE] ROFORMER: ENHANCED TRANSFORMER WITH ROTARY POSITION EMBEDDING(@Zhuiyi Technology Co., Ltd.) | [pdf] | [transformers]  |
⭐️ |
| 2022.10 | [ByteTransformer] A High-Performance Transformer Boosted for Variable-Length Inputs(@ByteDance&NVIDIA) | [pdf] | [ByteTransformer]  |
⭐️ |
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