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QUICK: Quantization-aware Interleaving and Conflict-free Kernel for efficient LLM inference

15 Feb 2024arXiv:2402.10076archive 2025-07-28

Taesu Kim, Jongho Lee, Daehyun Ahn, Sarang Kim, Jiwoong Choi, Minkyu Kim, HyungJun Kim

We introduce QUICK, a group of novel optimized CUDA kernels for the efficient inference of quantized Large Language Models (LLMs). QUICK addresses the shared memory bank-conflict problem of state-of-the-art mixed precision matrix multiplication kernels. Our method interleaves the quantized weight matrices of LLMs offline to skip the shared memory write-back after the dequantization. We demonstrate up to 1.91x speedup over existing kernels of AutoAWQ on larger batches and up to 1.94x throughput gain on representative LLM models on various NVIDIA GPU devices.

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