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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

Dynamic Query Grouping Boosts AI Speed By 2x With Long Text Processing

Large language models like GPT-4 process huge text with Multi-Head Attention. COGQA adapts group sizes for faster inference, achieving 1.8x speedup without quality loss, especially for long-context models.

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GQA (Grouped-Query Attention) reduces training costs but doesn't optimize for inference
Cost-Optimal GQA (COGQA) adapts group sizes based on sequence length
COGQA achieves 1.8× faster inference without quality loss
Dynamically adjusts query-head group sizes during different processing phases
Works especially well for long-context (100K+ tokens) language models
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