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| author | Tanaka, Kaito Ito, Masato Nishimura, Yuji Matsuda, Keisuke Nakayama, Aya |
| author_facet | Tanaka, Kaito Ito, Masato Nishimura, Yuji Matsuda, Keisuke Nakayama, Aya |
| contents | Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications, yet their deployment remains challenging due to substantial computational costs, memory requirements, and energy consumption. Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that no single efficiency technique is universally optimal; instead, the effectiveness of methods such as efficient attention mechanisms, mixture-of-experts (MoE), parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and quantization varies significantly depending on task characteristics, resource constraints, and model scales. Building upon these insights, we propose AE-LLM, a unified framework that automatically selects and combines optimal efficiency techniques tailored to specific deployment scenarios. Our approach introduces a multi-objective optimization framework that jointly considers accuracy, latency, memory footprint, and energy consumption, while accounting for hardware constraints and task requirements. We develop an efficient search algorithm that explores the combinatorial space of efficiency techniques across architecture, fine-tuning, and inference stages, identifying Pareto-optimal configurations. Extensive experiments across 15 models (0.5B-70B parameters) and 10 diverse tasks demonstrate that AE-LLM achieves an average of $2.8\times$ improvement in efficiency metrics while maintaining competitive accuracy (within 1.2\% of baseline), compared to static efficiency configurations. Furthermore, our framework generalizes effectively to vision-language models, achieving similar efficiency gains. Our contributions provide practitioners with an automated tool for navigating the complex trade-off landscape of LLM efficiency optimization. |
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| spellingShingle | AE-LLM: Adaptive Efficiency Optimization for Large Language Models Tanaka, Kaito Ito, Masato Nishimura, Yuji Matsuda, Keisuke Nakayama, Aya Machine Learning Computation and Language Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications, yet their deployment remains challenging due to substantial computational costs, memory requirements, and energy consumption. Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that no single efficiency technique is universally optimal; instead, the effectiveness of methods such as efficient attention mechanisms, mixture-of-experts (MoE), parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and quantization varies significantly depending on task characteristics, resource constraints, and model scales. Building upon these insights, we propose AE-LLM, a unified framework that automatically selects and combines optimal efficiency techniques tailored to specific deployment scenarios. Our approach introduces a multi-objective optimization framework that jointly considers accuracy, latency, memory footprint, and energy consumption, while accounting for hardware constraints and task requirements. We develop an efficient search algorithm that explores the combinatorial space of efficiency techniques across architecture, fine-tuning, and inference stages, identifying Pareto-optimal configurations. Extensive experiments across 15 models (0.5B-70B parameters) and 10 diverse tasks demonstrate that AE-LLM achieves an average of $2.8\times$ improvement in efficiency metrics while maintaining competitive accuracy (within 1.2\% of baseline), compared to static efficiency configurations. Furthermore, our framework generalizes effectively to vision-language models, achieving similar efficiency gains. Our contributions provide practitioners with an automated tool for navigating the complex trade-off landscape of LLM efficiency optimization. |
| title | AE-LLM: Adaptive Efficiency Optimization for Large Language Models |
| topic | Machine Learning Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20492 |