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Take Your AI Performance to the Next Level
2:4 Sparse Llama: Smaller Models for Efficient GPU Inference
Large language models (LLMs) are approaching their limits in terms of traditional scaling, with billions of parameters added for relatively small accuracy gains and advanced quantization techniques squeezing out the last possible bits before accuracy plummets.
We Ran Over Half a Million Evaluations on Quantized LLMs: Here's What We Found
Quantizing models to lower precision formats, such as 8-bit or 4-bit, significantly reduces computational costs and accelerates inference.
Introducing Machete, a Mixed-Input GEMM Kernel Optimized for NVIDIA Hopper GPUs
Mixed-input quantization is a technique that processes weights and activations at different precisions in neural networks.
Research From Our Labs 🧪
1️⃣ "Give Me BF16 or Give Me Death"? Accuracy-Performance Trade-Offs in LLM Quantization | Read Here
2️⃣ PV-Tuning: Beyond Straight-Through Estimation for Extreme
LLM Compression | Read Here
3️⃣ QuaRot: Outlier-Free 4-Bit Inference in Rotated LLMs | Read Here
4️⃣ The Iterative Optimal Brain Surgeon: Faster Sparse Recovery by Leveraging Second-Order Information | Read Here
5️⃣ MicroAdam: Accurate Adaptive Optimization with Low Space Overhead and Provable Convergence | Read Here
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About the author
Saša Zelenović is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat, joining in 2025 through the Neural Magic acquisition where he led as Head of Marketing. With a passion for developer-focused marketing, Sasa drives efforts to help developers compress models for inference and deploy them with vLLM. He co-hosts the bi-weekly vLLM Office Hours, a go-to spot for insights and community around all things vLLM.
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