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[CPU] Support dynamic activation sparsity #27974
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Activation sparsity exploit the fact that activations in MLP of LLMs is sparse and input channels of activations with small magnitude can be set as zero with acceptable accuracy-drop.
The distribution of sparse channels of activation is dynamic (only known at runtime) and variates a lot from token to token, thus the optimization opportunity only exists in 2nd token generation process with batch-size fixed to 1 (which is exactly typical use-case for client-side LLM inference), in which case weight memory reading cost corresponding to the skipped input channel can be saved.
The best weight memory layout for this optimization is plain [IC, OC], so weights corresponding to each input channel is dense, the non-sparse input channel can enjoy CPU's HW-prefetcher's boost to continuous stream access. if we use current blocked weight-layout set by oneDNN-fork, the weights from both non-sparse & sparse channels would be mixed together in unit of cache-line, which would hurt performance, both due to unfriendly access pattern to HW-prefetcher & DDR's physical page granularity.
But choose plain [IC,OC] layout poses challenge to 1st token latency because blocked layout is best for 1st-token/compute-bound case, so in this PR, we have to also minimize the degradation of 1st token latency.
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