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LLMLingua-2: Data Distillation for Efficient and Faithful Task-Agnostic Prompt Compression
Tue Apr 02 2024Description
Prompt compression aims to shorten prompts without losing essential information for large language models. Existing methods use task-aware or task-agnostic approaches for prompt compression. Challenges include suboptimal metrics and limitations in capturing essential information. The proposed method shows performance gains over strong baselines and demonstrates robust generalization ability across different datasets.
Insights
New Model Performance
A new model demonstrates significant performance gains over strong baselines and shows robust generalization ability from GPT 3.5 turbo to Mistral 7B
Prompt Compression Methods
Prompt compression methods can be categorized into task aware and task agnostic approaches, tailored for specific tasks or adaptable to a range of applications
Data Distillation and Annotation
Data distillation and annotation procedures are outlined for effective prompt compression, ensuring token reduction, formativeness, and faithfulness to the original text
Model Performance and Generalizability
The model presented in the transcript demonstrates significant performance gains over other baselines, showcasing good generalization ability across different scenarios.
LLM LINGU A2
LLM LINGU A2 shows better performance than the original prompt, indicating effective compression.
LLMLINGUA2 Benefits
LLMLINGUA2 offers shorter prompts with higher information density, improving Mistral 7B's final inference performance.
Efficiency of LLM-lingua 2
LLM-lingua 2 has lower computation overhead and can achieve speedup ranging from 1.6x to 2.9x compared to other methods.
GPU Memory Cost Reduction
The method discussed in the transcript can reduce GPU memory costs by 8x, lowering hardware resource demands.
Reconstruction of Compressed Prompts
GPT-4 can effectively reconstruct the original prompt from compressed prompts without essential information loss.
Success Factors of LLMLINGUA2
Chunk-wise compression and instruction design significantly contribute to the success of LLMLINGUA2, as shown in Table 7.
Chapters
- Prompt Compression
- Key Insights on Prompt Compression
- Data Annotation and Compression Strategy
- Additional Insights on Prompt Compression
Prompt Compression
00:08 - 08:11
- Prompt compression aims to shorten prompts without losing essential information for large language models.
- Existing methods use task-aware or task-agnostic approaches for prompt compression.
- Challenges in prompt compression include suboptimal metrics and limitations in capturing essential information.
- Research questions focus on dataset alignment and leveraging bidirectional context effectively for prompt compression.
- Extractive text compression datasets are proposed to retain crucial information for prompt compression.
- Contributions of the paper include a data distillation procedure, an extractive text compression dataset, and a token classification approach for prompt compression.
- The proposed method shows performance gains over strong baselines and demonstrates robust generalization ability across different datasets.
Key Insights on Prompt Compression
07:42 - 15:42
- A new model demonstrates significant performance gains over strong baselines and shows robust generalization ability from GPT 3.5 turbo to Mistral 7B
- Prompt compression methods can be categorized into task aware and task agnostic approaches, tailored for specific tasks or adaptable to a range of applications
- Data distillation and annotation procedures are outlined for effective prompt compression, ensuring token reduction, formativeness, and faithfulness to the original text
Data Annotation and Compression Strategy
15:13 - 23:03
- Data annotation aims to assign labels for compression decisions in text processing.
- Quality control metrics are introduced to assess the quality of compressed texts and annotated labels.
- A compression strategy involving a three-step process is utilized to compress original prompts.
- Token classification-based compressor can replace perplexity-based iterative token compression module in LLM lingua for higher compression ratios.
- Implementation details include using hugging faces transformers and pytorch with specific models and training parameters.
- Experiments evaluate compressed prompts on different data sets and tasks, showcasing superior performance compared to baselines in some scenarios.
- Efficiency and generalizability of the model are highlighted across various benchmarks, showing promising results but falling short compared to task-aware methods in certain cases.
Additional Insights on Prompt Compression
22:33 - 27:43
- The model presented in the transcript demonstrates significant performance gains over other baselines, showcasing good generalization ability across different scenarios.
- LLM LINGU A2 shows better performance than the original prompt, indicating effective compression.
- LLMLINGUA2 offers shorter prompts with higher information density, improving Mistral 7B's final inference performance.
- LLM-lingua 2 has lower computation overhead and can achieve speedup ranging from 1.6x to 2.9x compared to other methods.
- The method discussed in the transcript can reduce GPU memory costs by 8x, lowering hardware resource demands.
- GPT-4 can effectively reconstruct the original prompt from compressed prompts without essential information loss.
- Chunk-wise compression and instruction design significantly contribute to the success of LLMLINGUA2, as shown in Table 7.
- The paper targets task-agnostic prompt compression for better generalizability and efficiency, showing superiority over strong baselines in terms of performance and compression latency.