Revolutionizing AI Efficiency: How Microsoft’s LLMLingua-2 is Changing the Game with 8x Less Memory

  • LLMLingua-2 is a novel compression technology developed by Microsoft Research, achieving state-of-the-art results with 8 times less GPU memory on tasks typically handled by models like GPT-4.
  • It introduces innovative approaches such as « Data Distillation, » « Bidirectional Token Classification, » and optimized compression objectives to efficiently compress prompts without losing key information.
  • The technology has shown superior performance across various language tasks and demonstrated remarkable generalization across different LLMs and languages, from GPT-3.5 to Mistral-7B and from English to Chinese.
  • Compared to existing prompt compression methods, LLMLingua-2 is 3 to 6 times faster, accelerates end-to-end inference by 1.6 to 2.9 times, and significantly reduces GPU memory usage by a factor of 8.
  • This advancement represents a significant step forward in making language AI more practical and scalable for real-world applications, demonstrating Microsoft Research’s leadership in the field.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12968.pdf

sample

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/llmlingua-2-bert-base-multilingual-cased-meetingbank

Text splitting

Large language models (LLMs) can be used for many tasks, but often have a limited context size that can be smaller than documents you might want to use. To use documents of larger length, you often have to split your text into chunks to fit within this context size.

This crate provides methods for splitting longer pieces of text into smaller chunks, aiming to maximize a desired chunk size, but still splitting at semantically sensible boundaries whenever possible.

Levels Of Text Splitting

Semantic text splitting library

https://github.com/benbrandt/text-splitter

Chunks Vizualizer

https://chunkviz.up.railway.app/

Revolutionizing AI Reading Comprehension: ReadAgent’s Breakthrough in Handling Documents with 20 Million Tokens

  • Introduction to ReadAgent by Google DeepMind
  • Development of ReadAgent, an AI capable of understanding long texts beyond the limits of its language model.
  • Utilizes a human-like reading strategy to comprehend complex documents.
  • Challenges Faced by Language Models
  • Context length limitation: Fixed token processing capacity leading to performance decline.
  • Ineffective context usage: Decreased comprehension with increasing text length.
  • Features of ReadAgent
  • Mimics human reading by forming and using « gist memories » of texts.
  • Breaks down texts into smaller « episodes » and generates gist memories for each.
  • Looks up relevant episodes when needed for answering questions.
  • Performance Enhancements
  • Capable of understanding documents « 20 times longer » than its base language model.
  • Shows improved performance on long document question answering datasets:
    • QuALITY: Accuracy improved from 85.8% to 86.9%.
    • NarrativeQA: Rating increased by 13-32% over baselines.
    • QMSum: Rating improved from 44.96% to 49.58%.
  • Potential Applications
  • Legal contract review, scientific literature analysis, customer support, financial report summarization, automated online course creation.
  • Indicates the future potential of AI in mastering lengthy real-world documents through human-like reading strategies.

https://read-agent.github.io/

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