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Mark Kurtz

Charlottesville
As seen in: WCAV-TV (Charlottesville, VA), Medium, InfoQ, KDnuggets, WAVY-TV (Portsmouth, VA), The New Stack, Adirondack Life Magazine
Corporate Director of News - Lockwood Broadcast Group General Manager at WCAV-TV CBS19, ABC Virginia and FOX Virginia
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GenAI at Scale: What It Enables, What It Costs, and How To Reduce the Pain

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By Mark Kurtz
| InfoQ Verified
Transcript Kurtz: My name is Mark Kurtz. I was the CTO at a startup called Neural Magic. We were acquired by Red Hat end of last year, and now working under the CTO arm at Red Hat. I'm going to be talking about GenAI at scale. Essentially, what it enables, a quick overview on that, costs, and generally how to reduce the pain. Running through a little bit more of the structure, we'll go through the state of LLMs and real-world deployment trends.
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2:4 Sparse Llama: Smaller Models for Efficient GPU Inference

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By Eldar Kurtic, Alexandre Marques, Mark Kurtz, Dan Alistarh
| neuralmagic.com
Nov 25, 2024 Sparse Foundation Model: The first sparse, highly accurate foundation model built on top of Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B with 98% recovery on Open LLM Leaderboard v1 and full recovery across fine-tuning tasks, including math, coding, and chat. Hardware-Accelerated Sparsity: Features a 2:4 sparsity pattern designed for NVIDIA Ampere GPUs and newer, delivering up to 30% higher throughput and 1.8x lower latency from sparsity alone with vLLM.
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2022 State of Competitive ML

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By Mark Kurtz
| Medium
Percent of winning solutions utilizing PyTorch vs. TensorFlow from 2022 State of Competitive Machine Learning The 2022 State of Competitive Machine Learning was released recently, and in it, the authors highlight the core trends across the past year. In their words, "2022 was a big year for competitive machine learning, with a total prize pool of more than $5m across all platforms".
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