Mixed-precision decomposition

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Mixed Precision

LLM.int8()

The reason it is called "Decomposition" is that this methodology decomposes the data into two parts during the matrix multiplication process.

outlier: fp16

non-outlier: fp8

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A Gentle Introduction to 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for transformers at scale using transformers, accelerate and bitsandbytes

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A Gentle Introduction to 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for transformers at scale using transformers, accelerate and bitsandbytes

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A Gentle Introduction to 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for transformers at scale using transformers, accelerate and bitsandbytes

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07339

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.04003

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