IEEE

LLM on FPGA: Squeezing Language Models by Quantization and Multi-Query Attention and its Efficient Hardware Architecture

Abstract: We present an on-chip implementation of a compressed Transformer-based language model on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA. Our contributions include: (1) combining ultra-low-precision quantization (4 ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models

Google has launched SQL-native managed inference for 180,000+ Hugging Face models in BigQuery. The preview release collapses the ML lifecycle into a unified SQL interface, eliminating the need for ...
InfoQ

Cloudflare Introduces Aggregations in R2 SQL for Data Analytics

Cloudflare recently announced support for aggregations in R2 SQL, a new feature that lets developers run SQL queries on data stored in R2. This enhancement expands R2 SQL beyond basic filtering and ...
IEEE

OptLLM: Optimal Assignment of Queries to Large Language Models

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered considerable attention owing to their remarkable capabilities, leading to an increasing number of companies offering LLMs as services. Different ...