Motivating Next-Gen Accelerators with Flexible N{:}M Activation Sparsity via Benchmarking Lightweight Post-Training Sparsification Approaches
Shirin Alanova · Kristina Kazistova · Ekaterina Galaeva · Alina Kostromina · Vladimir Smirnov · Redko Dmitry · Alexey Dontsov · Maxim Zhelnin · Evgeny Burnaev · Egor Shvetsov
摘要
The demand for efficient large language model inference has spurred interest in sparsification, yet current hardware support remains narrowly focused on 2:4 weight sparsity. In this work, we argue that activation sparsity despite being overlooked in hardware design offers a promising path for dyn...