flash-attention VS alpaca_lora_4bit

Compare flash-attention vs alpaca_lora_4bit and see what are their differences.

flash-attention

Fast and memory-efficient exact attention (by Dao-AILab)
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flash-attention alpaca_lora_4bit
25 41
10,263 525
8.8% -
9.4 8.6
3 days ago 4 months ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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flash-attention

Posts with mentions or reviews of flash-attention. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

alpaca_lora_4bit

Posts with mentions or reviews of alpaca_lora_4bit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flash-attention and alpaca_lora_4bit you can also consider the following projects:

xformers - Hackable and optimized Transformers building blocks, supporting a composable construction.

TensorRT - NVIDIA® TensorRT™ is an SDK for high-performance deep learning inference on NVIDIA GPUs. This repository contains the open source components of TensorRT.

DeepSpeed - DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.

memory-efficient-attention-pytorch - Implementation of a memory efficient multi-head attention as proposed in the paper, "Self-attention Does Not Need O(n²) Memory"

RWKV-LM - RWKV is an RNN with transformer-level LLM performance. It can be directly trained like a GPT (parallelizable). So it's combining the best of RNN and transformer - great performance, fast inference, saves VRAM, fast training, "infinite" ctx_len, and free sentence embedding.

qlora - QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

StableLM - StableLM: Stability AI Language Models

safetensors - Simple, safe way to store and distribute tensors

XMem - [ECCV 2022] XMem: Long-Term Video Object Segmentation with an Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Model

RWKV-v2-RNN-Pile - RWKV-v2-RNN trained on the Pile. See https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM for details.

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