How to Optimize LLM Inference
TL;DR The memory required to run a model with hundreds of billions of parameters far exceeds the capacity of even the largest available GPUs. Maximizing GPU utilization throughout the inference process is key to efficient LLM operation. The attention mechanism is the main focus of optimization efforts, as it scales the least favorably. While key-value caching reduces computational load, multi-query and grouped-query attention reduce both the number of parameters and the cache size. By employing effective workload-parallelization strategies, […]