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Awesome-LLM-Prune
This repository is dedicated to the pruning of large language models (LLMs). It aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners interested in the efficient reduction of model size while maintaining or enhancing performance. The repository contains various papers, summaries, and links related to different pruning approaches for LLMs, along with author information and publication details. It covers a wide range of topics such as structured pruning, unstructured pruning, semi-structured pruning, and benchmarking methods. Researchers and practitioners can explore different pruning techniques, understand their implications, and access relevant resources for further study and implementation.

LLM-Pruner
LLM-Pruner is a tool for structural pruning of large language models, allowing task-agnostic compression while retaining multi-task solving ability. It supports automatic structural pruning of various LLMs with minimal human effort. The tool is efficient, requiring only 3 minutes for pruning and 3 hours for post-training. Supported LLMs include Llama-3.1, Llama-3, Llama-2, LLaMA, BLOOM, Vicuna, and Baichuan. Updates include support for new LLMs like GQA and BLOOM, as well as fine-tuning results achieving high accuracy. The tool provides step-by-step instructions for pruning, post-training, and evaluation, along with a Gradio interface for text generation. Limitations include issues with generating repetitive or nonsensical tokens in compressed models and manual operations for certain models.

MaskLLM
MaskLLM is a learnable pruning method that establishes Semi-structured Sparsity in Large Language Models (LLMs) to reduce computational overhead during inference. It is scalable and benefits from larger training datasets. The tool provides examples for running MaskLLM with Megatron-LM, preparing LLaMA checkpoints, pre-tokenizing C4 data for Megatron, generating prior masks, training MaskLLM, and evaluating the model. It also includes instructions for exporting sparse models to Huggingface.

KG-LLM-Papers
KG-LLM-Papers is a repository that collects papers integrating knowledge graphs (KGs) and large language models (LLMs). It serves as a comprehensive resource for research on the role of KGs in the era of LLMs, covering surveys, methods, and resources related to this integration.

Awesome-LLM-Interpretability
Awesome-LLM-Interpretability is a curated list of materials related to LLM (Large Language Models) interpretability, covering tutorials, code libraries, surveys, videos, papers, and blogs. It includes resources on transformer mechanistic interpretability, visualization, interventions, probing, fine-tuning, feature representation, learning dynamics, knowledge editing, hallucination detection, and redundancy analysis. The repository aims to provide a comprehensive overview of tools, techniques, and methods for understanding and interpreting the inner workings of large language models.

duo-attention
DuoAttention is a framework designed to optimize long-context large language models (LLMs) by reducing memory and latency during inference without compromising their long-context abilities. It introduces a concept of Retrieval Heads and Streaming Heads to efficiently manage attention across tokens. By applying a full Key and Value (KV) cache to retrieval heads and a lightweight, constant-length KV cache to streaming heads, DuoAttention achieves significant reductions in memory usage and decoding time for LLMs. The framework uses an optimization-based algorithm with synthetic data to accurately identify retrieval heads, enabling efficient inference with minimal accuracy loss compared to full attention. DuoAttention also supports quantization techniques for further memory optimization, allowing for decoding of up to 3.3 million tokens on a single GPU.

awesome-open-data-annotation
At ZenML, we believe in the importance of annotation and labeling workflows in the machine learning lifecycle. This repository showcases a curated list of open-source data annotation and labeling tools that are actively maintained and fit for purpose. The tools cover various domains such as multi-modal, text, images, audio, video, time series, and other data types. Users can contribute to the list and discover tools for tasks like named entity recognition, data annotation for machine learning, image and video annotation, text classification, sequence labeling, object detection, and more. The repository aims to help users enhance their data-centric workflows by leveraging these tools.

llm-compressor
llm-compressor is an easy-to-use library for optimizing models for deployment with vllm. It provides a comprehensive set of quantization algorithms, seamless integration with Hugging Face models and repositories, and supports mixed precision, activation quantization, and sparsity. Supported algorithms include PTQ, GPTQ, SmoothQuant, and SparseGPT. Installation can be done via git clone and local pip install. Compression can be easily applied by selecting an algorithm and calling the oneshot API. The library also offers end-to-end examples for model compression. Contributions to the code, examples, integrations, and documentation are appreciated.

llms-learning
A repository sharing literatures and resources about Large Language Models (LLMs) and beyond. It includes tutorials, notebooks, course assignments, development stages, modeling, inference, training, applications, study, and basics related to LLMs. The repository covers various topics such as language models, transformers, state space models, multi-modal language models, training recipes, applications in autonomous driving, code, math, embodied intelligence, and more. The content is organized by different categories and provides comprehensive information on LLMs and related topics.

Awesome-Resource-Efficient-LLM-Papers
A curated list of high-quality papers on resource-efficient Large Language Models (LLMs) with a focus on various aspects such as architecture design, pre-training, fine-tuning, inference, system design, and evaluation metrics. The repository covers topics like efficient transformer architectures, non-transformer architectures, memory efficiency, data efficiency, model compression, dynamic acceleration, deployment optimization, support infrastructure, and other related systems. It also provides detailed information on computation metrics, memory metrics, energy metrics, financial cost metrics, network communication metrics, and other metrics relevant to resource-efficient LLMs. The repository includes benchmarks for evaluating the efficiency of NLP models and references for further reading.

llm-resource
llm-resource is a comprehensive collection of high-quality resources for Large Language Models (LLM). It covers various aspects of LLM including algorithms, training, fine-tuning, alignment, inference, data engineering, compression, evaluation, prompt engineering, AI frameworks, AI basics, AI infrastructure, AI compilers, LLM application development, LLM operations, AI systems, and practical implementations. The repository aims to gather and share valuable resources related to LLM for the community to benefit from.

llms-tools
The 'llms-tools' repository is a comprehensive collection of AI tools, open-source projects, and research related to Large Language Models (LLMs) and Chatbots. It covers a wide range of topics such as AI in various domains, open-source models, chats & assistants, visual language models, evaluation tools, libraries, devices, income models, text-to-image, computer vision, audio & speech, code & math, games, robotics, typography, bio & med, military, climate, finance, and presentation. The repository provides valuable resources for researchers, developers, and enthusiasts interested in exploring the capabilities of LLMs and related technologies.

awesome-LLM-resourses
A comprehensive repository of resources for Chinese large language models (LLMs), including data processing tools, fine-tuning frameworks, inference libraries, evaluation platforms, RAG engines, agent frameworks, books, courses, tutorials, and tips. The repository covers a wide range of tools and resources for working with LLMs, from data labeling and processing to model fine-tuning, inference, evaluation, and application development. It also includes resources for learning about LLMs through books, courses, and tutorials, as well as insights and strategies from building with LLMs.

Awesome-Knowledge-Distillation-of-LLMs
A collection of papers related to knowledge distillation of large language models (LLMs). The repository focuses on techniques to transfer advanced capabilities from proprietary LLMs to smaller models, compress open-source LLMs, and refine their performance. It covers various aspects of knowledge distillation, including algorithms, skill distillation, verticalization distillation in fields like law, medical & healthcare, finance, science, and miscellaneous domains. The repository provides a comprehensive overview of the research in the area of knowledge distillation of LLMs.

llm-continual-learning-survey
This repository is an updating survey for Continual Learning of Large Language Models (CL-LLMs), providing a comprehensive overview of various aspects related to the continual learning of large language models. It covers topics such as continual pre-training, domain-adaptive pre-training, continual fine-tuning, model refinement, model alignment, multimodal LLMs, and miscellaneous aspects. The survey includes a collection of relevant papers, each focusing on different areas within the field of continual learning of large language models.

A-Survey-on-Mixture-of-Experts-in-LLMs
A curated collection of papers and resources on Mixture of Experts in Large Language Models. The repository provides a chronological overview of several representative Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models in recent years, structured according to release dates. It covers MoE models from various domains like Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, Multimodal, and Recommender Systems. The repository aims to offer insights into Inference Optimization Techniques, Sparsity exploration, Attention mechanisms, and safety enhancements in MoE models.

Awesome-System2-Reasoning-LLM
The Awesome-System2-Reasoning-LLM repository is dedicated to a survey paper titled 'From System 1 to System 2: A Survey of Reasoning Large Language Models'. It explores the development of reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs), their foundational technologies, benchmarks, and future directions. The repository provides resources and updates related to the research, tracking the latest developments in the field of reasoning LLMs.