EleutherAI / EleutherAI/cookbook
Improve Quantization
- Dominant language
- Python
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- 852
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- 47
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Description
The quantization support I've added through `--low-prec-bytes-per-val` is a bit barebones. It'd be nice to add enough flexibility to handle per-block quantization (e.g. some only quantize the linears to int4) and some of the new formats that aren't a multiple of a byte (e.g. int4, fp6, etc)
Relevant: https://github.com/EleutherAI/cookbook/issues/36
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Research direction
Start by locating the implementation and tests for the `--low-prec-bytes-per-val` option, then read the related cookbook issue 36 for context. Clarify the quantization design and scope before changing code. Done means per-block quantization can target selected layers and formats such as int4 and fp6 are supported, with tests covering those cases.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100