Revolutionizing Mobile Interaction: Enabling a 3 Billion Parameter GPT
  LLM on Mobile
Samuel Carreira Tomás Marques José Ribeiro Carlos Grilo
The field of Artificial Intelligence has witnessed remarkable progress in
recent years, especially with the emergence of powerful large language models
(LLMs) based on the transformer architecture. Cloud-based LLMs, such as
OpenAI's ChatGPT, offer impressive capabilities but come with concerns
regarding latency and privacy due to network dependencies. This article
presents an innovative approach to LLM inference, envisioning a future where
LLMs with billions of parameters can be executed directly on mobile devices
without network connectivity. The article showcases a fine-tuned GPT LLM with 3
billion parameters that can operate smoothly on devices with as low as 4GB of
memory. Through the integration of native code and model quantization
techniques, the application not only serves as a general-purpose assistant but
also facilitates seamless mobile interactions with text-to-actions features.
The article provides insights into the training pipeline, implementation
details, test results, and future directions of on-device LLM inference. This
breakthrough technology opens up possibilities for empowering users with
sophisticated AI capabilities while preserving their privacy and eliminating
latency concerns.