MatMul-Free LM

MatMul-Free LM is an experimental implementation of a large language model architecture designed to eliminate traditional matrix multiplication operations used in transformer networks. Since matrix multiplication is one of the most computationally expensive components of modern language models, the project explores alternative computational strategies that reduce hardware requirements while maintaining comparable performance. The architecture relies on quantization-aware training and lightweight operations to replace conventional dense matrix multiplications with more efficient alternatives. These optimizations can significantly reduce memory consumption and potentially improve computational efficiency during both training and inference. The repository provides implementations of models at several parameter scales and includes tools for experimenting with the architecture using modern machine learning frameworks.