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Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Models
| العنوان: | Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Models |
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| المؤلفون: | Borzunov, Alexander, Baranchuk, Dmitry, Dettmers, Tim, Ryabinin, Max, Belkada, Younes, Chumachenko, Artem, Samygin, Pavel, Raffel, Colin |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Computer Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
| الوصف: | Many NLP tasks benefit from using large language models (LLMs) that often have more than 100 billion parameters. With the release of BLOOM-176B and OPT-175B, everyone can download pretrained models of this scale. Still, using these models requires high-end hardware unavailable to many researchers. In some cases, LLMs can be used more affordably via RAM offloading or hosted APIs. However, these techniques have innate limitations: offloading is too slow for interactive inference, while APIs are not flexible enough for research that requires access to weights, attention or logits. In this work, we propose Petals - a system for inference and fine-tuning of large models collaboratively by joining the resources of multiple parties. We demonstrate that this strategy outperforms offloading for very large models, running inference of BLOOM-176B on consumer GPUs with $\approx$ 1 step per second, which is enough for many interactive LLM applications. Unlike most inference APIs, Petals also natively exposes hidden states of served models, allowing to train and share custom model extensions based on efficient fine-tuning methods. Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures. The version 2 updates the benchmarks and the description of the chat application. Source code and docs: https://petals.ml |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01188 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2209.01188 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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