2024
Prefixing Attention Sinks can Mitigate Activation Outliers for Large Language Model Quantization
EMNLP 2024main
Despite recent advances in LLM quantization, activation quantization remains to be challenging due to the activation outliers. Conventional remedies, e.g., mixing precisions for different channels, introduce extra overhead and reduce the speedup. In this work, we develop a simple yet effective strat…