Comment by mitxela
17 hours ago
which is important though since sending it across the wire over and over and over is actually the main bottleneck.
17 hours ago
which is important though since sending it across the wire over and over and over is actually the main bottleneck.
Wire typically means internet connection, and it’s hardly the bottleneck
in the case of large language models, the wire is the communication of your parameters between your layers of memory that is often the bottleneck. To do a forward pass, you need to use all parameters once, and so the communication between the compute and the storage is the bottleneck, and that bottleneck is also a bunch of wires.
The other bottleneck is the amount of fast storage, which compression also improves.