Shishir G Patil
2024
LLoCO: Learning Long Contexts Offline
Sijun Tan
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Xiuyu Li
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Shishir G Patil
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Ziyang Wu
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Tianjun Zhang
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Kurt Keutzer
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Joseph Gonzalez
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Raluca Popa
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Processing long contexts remains a challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to the quadratic computational and memory overhead of the self-attention mechanism and the substantial KV cache sizes during generation. We propose LLoCO, a novel approach to address this problem by learning contexts offline through context compression and in-domain parameter-efficient finetuning with LoRA. Our method enables an LLM to create a concise representation of the original context and efficiently retrieve relevant information to answer questions accurately. Our approach extends the effective context window of a 4k token LLaMA2-7B model to handle up to 128k tokens. We evaluate our approach on several long-context question-answering datasets, demonstrating that LLoCO significantly outperforms in-context learning while using 30 × fewer tokens during inference. LLoCO achieves up to 7.62 × speed-up during inference and 11.52 × higher throughput during finetuning, substantially reduces the cost of long document question answering. This makes it a promising solution for efficient long context processing.
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