Distributed Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Language Models Over The Internet

no code implementations • NeurIPS 2023 • Alexander Borzunov, Max Ryabinin, Artem Chumachenko, Dmitry Baranchuk, Tim Dettmers, Younes Belkada, Pavel Samygin, Colin Raffel

Large language models (LLMs) are useful in many NLP tasks and become more capable with size, with the best open-source models having over 50 billion parameters.

Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Models

1 code implementation • 2 Sep 2022 • Alexander Borzunov, Dmitry Baranchuk, Tim Dettmers, Max Ryabinin, Younes Belkada, Artem Chumachenko, Pavel Samygin, Colin Raffel

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.

Collaborative Inference