<ul><li>A recent research introduced BackSlash, a compression algorithm for large language models (LLMs), emphasizing the importance of the statistical distribution of model parameters on model performance.</li><li>The research found that pre-trained LLM parameters follow generalized Gaussian distributions (GGDs) better, leading to the proposal of an end-to-end framework for LLM optimization based on the GG model.</li><li>The proposed framework includes a GG-based initialization scheme, a post-training regularization method called DeepShape, and a hardware-efficient 8-bit floating-point format called RF8 for training models with GG-distributed-initialized BackSlash, resulting in smaller and faster models with maintained or improved performance.</li><li>Experiments across various model architectures demonstrated that the proposed framework consistently produced more efficient models compared to standard training baselines, offering a path towards efficient, scalable, and hardware-aware AI systems.</li></ul>

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