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TinyBERT LLM successfully runs on ESP32 microcontroller

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It is possible to run a 14.5 million parameter tinyBERT LLM on an ESP32 microcontroller, specifically the ESP32-S3 N16R8 model which features 16MB of Flash memory and 8MB of PSRAM. The process involves converting the model's parameter matrices to ONNX format and then quantizing them from 32-bit floating point to 4-bit integers. This optimization is necessary because transformer models typically use 32 floating points for matrix multiplications. AI

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TinyBERT LLM successfully runs on ESP32 microcontroller

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Is it possible to run a 14.5M tinyBERT LLM on esp32? Yes, you can but you need to get one of the best esp32 boards, namely ESP32-S3 N16R8 that has 16M Flash mem

    Is it possible to run a 14.5M tinyBERT LLM on esp32? Yes, you can but you need to get one of the best esp32 boards, namely ESP32-S3 N16R8 that has 16M Flash memory and 8M PSRAM in it. The first step is to turn tinyBERT's parameter matrices into ONNX format. Then quantize it to 4 …

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