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1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Neuronal firing is often understood as a fundamentally binary process, because a neuron either fires an action potential or it does not. This is often referred to as the “all-or-none” principle.

Isn't this true of standard multi-bit neural networks too? This seems to be what a nonlinear activation function achieves: translating the input values into an all-or-nothing activation.

The characteristic of a 1-bit model is not that its activations are recorded in a single but but that its weights are. There are no gradations of connection weights: they are just on or off. As far as I know, that's different from both standard neural nets and from how the brain works.