Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/mastering-llm-techniques-inference-optimization/
Stacking transformer layers to create large models results in better accuracies, few-shot learning capabilities, and even near-human emergent abilities on a wide range of language tasks. These foundation models are expensive to train, and they can be memory- and compute-intensive during inference (a recurring cost). The most popular large language models (LLMs) today can reach…