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Episode 33: Tri Dao, Stanford: On FlashAttention and sparsity, quantization, and efficient inference

Generally Intelligent

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The Importance of Static Sparsity in Truning

The team used a technique called sparsity, which means you know beforehand that you want some of these entries to be zero. And dynamic sparsity says that, hey, you're going to change the locations of the non-zero from time to time. In our experience, static sparsity is just a lot easier to work with and in terms of speed, they're easier to implement. So we've been wanting to make a dynamic sparsity work but haven't been able to do so.

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