Efficient Large Language Models with Zero-Shot Adjustable Acceleration

Abstract: Using LLMs in real-world applications presents significant challenges, particularly in balancing computational efficiency and performance. Optimizing acceleration after the fine-tuning phase and during inference is crucial for building an efficient architecture. This paper introduces Zero-Shot Adjustable Acceleration, a novel training and inference method that dynamically adjusts hardware usage during inference without requiring additional fine-tuning. The proposed approach is applied to newly developed models and evaluated across multiple classification and text generation tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that the method enables a wide range of acceleration in a zero-shot manner and achieves up to a 11x speedup compared to the baseline.