Mamba-Shedder: Post-Transformer Compression for Efficient Selective Structured State Space Models

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Autori principali: Muñoz, J. Pablo, Yuan, Jinjie, Jain, Nilesh
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author Muñoz, J. Pablo
Yuan, Jinjie
Jain, Nilesh
author_facet Muñoz, J. Pablo
Yuan, Jinjie
Jain, Nilesh
contents Large pre-trained models have achieved outstanding results in sequence modeling. The Transformer block and its attention mechanism have been the main drivers of the success of these models. Recently, alternative architectures, such as Selective Structured State Space Models (SSMs), have been proposed to address the inefficiencies of Transformers. This paper explores the compression of SSM-based models, particularly Mamba and its hybrids. We study the sensitivity of these models to the removal of selected components at different granularities to reduce the model size and computational overhead, thus improving their efficiency while maintaining accuracy. The proposed solutions, collectively referred to as Mamba-Shedder, achieve a speedup of up to 1.4x during inference, demonstrating that model efficiency can be improved by eliminating several redundancies with minimal impact on the overall model performance. The code is available at https://github.com/IntelLabs/Hardware-Aware-Automated-Machine-Learning.
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spellingShingle Mamba-Shedder: Post-Transformer Compression for Efficient Selective Structured State Space Models
Muñoz, J. Pablo
Yuan, Jinjie
Jain, Nilesh
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
I.2.0
Large pre-trained models have achieved outstanding results in sequence modeling. The Transformer block and its attention mechanism have been the main drivers of the success of these models. Recently, alternative architectures, such as Selective Structured State Space Models (SSMs), have been proposed to address the inefficiencies of Transformers. This paper explores the compression of SSM-based models, particularly Mamba and its hybrids. We study the sensitivity of these models to the removal of selected components at different granularities to reduce the model size and computational overhead, thus improving their efficiency while maintaining accuracy. The proposed solutions, collectively referred to as Mamba-Shedder, achieve a speedup of up to 1.4x during inference, demonstrating that model efficiency can be improved by eliminating several redundancies with minimal impact on the overall model performance. The code is available at https://github.com/IntelLabs/Hardware-Aware-Automated-Machine-Learning.
title Mamba-Shedder: Post-Transformer Compression for Efficient Selective Structured State Space Models
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
I.2.0
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17088