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Lossless compression method reduces GPU memory for AI training

LCT: Losslessly Compressed Tensors with GPU friendly execution for Training

Abstract: Lossless tensor compression could reduce memory usage during training, but training requires tensors to be repeatedly re-encoded. We introduce Losslessly Compressed Tensors (LCT), a GPU execution framework designed for this repeated encode-decode regime. LCT exploits the natural redundancy in floating point data to reduce storage for weights, activations and optimizer states. Highly optimized GPU kernels implement Huffman coding with precomputed codebooks for low compression and decompression overhead, essential for training. Our analysis characterizes LCT's storage costs and adaptation to magnitude shifts. LCT achieves a compression ratio of up to $1.455\times$, and is demonstrated in training and finetuning settings. On a 162M-parameter NanoGPT, LCT reduces memory usage by $24.6\%$ for a $7.2\%$ step-time increase. In Qwen3-4B fine-tuning, LCT saves up to $23.8\%$ of peak memory, enabling a $3.5\times$ larger context length in training on the same GPU.

Thu 15 OctMachine Learning
The gist
Training AI models uses a lot of computer memory, partly because data needs to be stored and repeatedly compressed and decompressed. The authors created a new method called Losslessly Compressed Tensors (LCT) that stores this data in a smaller space without losing any information. They designed it to work fast on GPUs by using efficient coding techniques. Their method cuts memory use by about a quarter but slows training steps slightly. This allows bigger AI models or longer training sequences on the same hardware.
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