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Mixed-Precision Training for LLMs

Here're some resources about Mixed-Precision strategies, especially low-precision training for LLMs Note that many of the methods here can be shared with the ones in quantization

eXmY: A Data Type and Technique for Arbitrary Bit Precision Quantization

tag: eXmY

paper link: here

citation:

@misc{agrawal2024exmydatatypetechnique,
      title={eXmY: A Data Type and Technique for Arbitrary Bit Precision Quantization}, 
      author={Aditya Agrawal and Matthew Hedlund and Blake Hechtman},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2405.13938},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13938}, 
}

A Stochastic Rounding-Enabled Low-Precision Floating-Point MAC for DNN Training

tag: Optimized SR | Stochastic Rounding

paper link: here

citation:

@misc{ali2024stochasticroundingenabledlowprecisionfloatingpoint,
      title={A Stochastic Rounding-Enabled Low-Precision Floating-Point MAC for DNN Training}, 
      author={Sami Ben Ali and Silviu-Ioan Filip and Olivier Sentieys},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2404.14010},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.AR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14010}, 
}

FP8-LM: Training FP8 Large Language Models

tag: FP8-LM | FP8 Optimizer

paper link: here

github link: here

citation:

@misc{peng2023fp8lm,
      title={FP8-LM: Training FP8 Large Language Models}, 
      author={Houwen Peng and Kan Wu and Yixuan Wei and Guoshuai Zhao and Yuxiang Yang and Ze Liu and Yifan Xiong and Ziyue Yang and Bolin Ni and Jingcheng Hu and Ruihang Li and Miaosen Zhang and Chen Li and Jia Ning and Ruizhe Wang and Zheng Zhang and Shuguang Liu and Joe Chau and Han Hu and Peng Cheng},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2310.18313},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG}
}

BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models

tag: BitNet | W1A8

paper link: here

blog link: here

github link: here

citation:

@misc{wang2023bitnet,
      title={BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models}, 
      author={Hongyu Wang and Shuming Ma and Li Dong and Shaohan Huang and Huaijie Wang and Lingxiao Ma and Fan Yang and Ruiping Wang and Yi Wu and Furu Wei},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2310.11453},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Microscaling Data Formats for Deep Learning

tag: Microscaling | MX | MXFP8 | MXFP6 | MXFP4

paper link: here

spec link: here

citation:

@misc{rouhani2023microscalingdataformatsdeep,
      title={Microscaling Data Formats for Deep Learning}, 
      author={Bita Darvish Rouhani and Ritchie Zhao and Ankit More and Mathew Hall and Alireza Khodamoradi and Summer Deng and Dhruv Choudhary and Marius Cornea and Eric Dellinger and Kristof Denolf and Stosic Dusan and Venmugil Elango and Maximilian Golub and Alexander Heinecke and Phil James-Roxby and Dharmesh Jani and Gaurav Kolhe and Martin Langhammer and Ada Li and Levi Melnick and Maral Mesmakhosroshahi and Andres Rodriguez and Michael Schulte and Rasoul Shafipour and Lei Shao and Michael Siu and Pradeep Dubey and Paulius Micikevicius and Maxim Naumov and Colin Verrilli and Ralph Wittig and Doug Burger and Eric Chung},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2310.10537},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10537}, 
}

Training and inference of large language models using 8-bit floating point

tag: FP8 Scaling Bias

paper link: here

citation:

@misc{perez2023training,
      title={Training and inference of large language models using 8-bit floating point}, 
      author={Sergio P. Perez and Yan Zhang and James Briggs and Charlie Blake and Josh Levy-Kramer and Paul Balanca and Carlo Luschi and Stephen Barlow and Andrew William Fitzgibbon},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2309.17224},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG}
}

Stable and low-precision training for large-scale vision-language models

tag: SwitchBlock | StableAdamW | NIPS23 | Meta | Allen AI | LAION

paper link: here

citation:

@misc{wortsman2023stablelowprecisiontraininglargescale,
      title={Stable and low-precision training for large-scale vision-language models}, 
      author={Mitchell Wortsman and Tim Dettmers and Luke Zettlemoyer and Ari Morcos and Ali Farhadi and Ludwig Schmidt},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2304.13013},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13013}, 
}

Unit Scaling: Out-of-the-Box Low-Precision Training

tag: Unit Scaling | SNR Analysis

paper link: here

citation:

@misc{blake2023unitscalingoutoftheboxlowprecision,
      title={Unit Scaling: Out-of-the-Box Low-Precision Training}, 
      author={Charlie Blake and Douglas Orr and Carlo Luschi},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2303.11257},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11257}, 
}

NVIDIA Transformer Engine: Accelerating PyTorch Training Workloads with FP8

tag: TE FP8

blog link: here

docs link: here

github link: here

citation:

@misc{NVIDIA2023TransformerEngine,
  title={NVIDIA Transformer Engine: Accelerating PyTorch Training Workloads with FP8 (TE)},
  author={Chaim Rand, and NVIDIA},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/NVIDIA/TransformerEngine}},
  year={2023},
}

NVIDIA Train With Mixed Precision

tag: Mixed Precision

docs link: here

citation:

@manual{nvidia2024mixed,
  title = {Train With Mixed Precision},
  author= {{NVIDIA Corporation}},
  month = {February},
  year  = {2023},
  howpublished = {\url{https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/performance/mixed-precision-training/index.html}}
}

FP8 Quantization: The Power of the Exponent

tag: FP8 Quantization

paper link: here

github link: here

citation:

@misc{kuzmin2024fp8,
      title={FP8 Quantization: The Power of the Exponent}, 
      author={Andrey Kuzmin and Mart Van Baalen and Yuwei Ren and Markus Nagel and Jorn Peters and Tijmen Blankevoort},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2208.09225},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG}
}

8-bit Optimizers via Block-wise Quantization

tag: FP8 Optimizer | Blockwise Quantization | Dynamic Tree Quantization

paper link: here

citation:

@misc{dettmers20228bit,
      title={8-bit Optimizers via Block-wise Quantization}, 
      author={Tim Dettmers and Mike Lewis and Sam Shleifer and Luke Zettlemoyer},
      year={2022},
      eprint={2110.02861},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG}
}

Hybrid 8-bit Floating Point (HFP8) Training and Inference for Deep Neural Networks

tag: HFP8 | Hybrid FP8

paper link: here

citation:

@inproceedings{NEURIPS2019_65fc9fb4,
      author = {Sun, Xiao and Choi, Jungwook and Chen, Chia-Yu and Wang, Naigang and Venkataramani, Swagath and Srinivasan, Vijayalakshmi (Viji) and Cui, Xiaodong and Zhang, Wei and Gopalakrishnan, Kailash},
      booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
      editor = {H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d\textquotesingle Alch\'{e}-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett},
      pages = {},
      publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
      title = {Hybrid 8-bit Floating Point (HFP8) Training and Inference for Deep Neural Networks},
      url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2019/file/65fc9fb4897a89789352e211ca2d398f-Paper.pdf},
      volume = {32},
      year = {2019}
}

BFloat16: The secret to high performance on Cloud TPUs

tag: BF16

blog link: here

citation:

@misc{shibo2019bfloat16,
  author = {Shibo Wang and Pankaj Kanwar},
  title  = {bfloat16: The secret to high performance on Cloud TPUs},
  year   = {2019},
  howpublished = {\url{https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/bfloat16-the-secret-to-high-performance-on-cloud-tpus}}
}

Training Deep Neural Networks with 8-bit Floating Point Numbers

tag: FP8-E5M2 | Chunk-based Accumulation | Stochastic Rounding

paper link: here

citation:

@misc{wang2018training,
      title={Training Deep Neural Networks with 8-bit Floating Point Numbers}, 
      author={Naigang Wang and Jungwook Choi and Daniel Brand and Chia-Yu Chen and Kailash Gopalakrishnan},
      year={2018},
      eprint={1812.08011},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG}
}

Mixed Precision Training

tag: FP16 | Loss Scaling

paper link: here

citation:

@misc{micikevicius2018mixed,
      title={Mixed Precision Training}, 
      author={Paulius Micikevicius and Sharan Narang and Jonah Alben and Gregory Diamos and Erich Elsen and David Garcia and Boris Ginsburg and Michael Houston and Oleksii Kuchaiev and Ganesh Venkatesh and Hao Wu},
      year={2018},
      eprint={1710.03740},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.AI}
}