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bitnet.cpp is a new framework designed for the fast and efficient inference of 1-bit LLMs like BitNet b1.58. It supports CPU inference with plans for NPU and GPU support. Benchmark results show significant speedups and energy reductions on ARM and x86 CPUs. This framework can run large models like the 100B BitNet b1.58 model on a single CPU, making it suitable for local device execution. Installation and setup instructions are provided for various platforms.

microsoft/BitNet: Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

<p>For people who wanna know,
1-bit LLMs are basically storing the weight parameters on a single bit rather than 32 bit floats.</p>
<p>This reduces the need of a lot of resources to utilize them. Thus, it is similar to quantinization but more extreme and the LLMs are actually thought of being this small</p>
