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PACT lets small LMs borrow big model prompts for cheaper output
What is On the Opportunities and Challenges of Prefill-to-Autoregressive Cross-Model Transfer?
Prefill-to-Autoregressive Cross-Model Transfer (PACT) mixes the deep prompt understanding of a large language model with the fast generation of a smaller one. The result is a cheaper inference pipeline that retains much of the big model’s capability.
Who it is for
Developers who need strong language performance on limited hardware can use PACT to cut costs without sacrificing quality.