metadata

language:
  - en
  - de
  - fr
  - it
  - pt
  - hi
  - es
  - th
pipeline_tag: text-generation
license: llama3.1

Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16

Model Overview

Model Architecture: Meta-Llama-3
- Input: Text
- Output: Text
Model Optimizations:
- Weight quantization: INT4
Intended Use Cases: Intended for commercial and research use in English. Similarly to Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, this models is intended for assistant-like chat.
Out-of-scope: Use in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations (including trade compliance laws). Use in languages other than English.
Release Date: 7/26/2024
Version: 1.0
License(s): Llama3.1
Model Developers: Neural Magic

Quantized version of Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct. It achieves an average score of 67.57 on the OpenLLM benchmark (version 1), whereas the unquantized model achieves 69.32.

Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights of Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to INT4 data type. This optimization reduces the number of bits per parameter from 16 to 4, reducing the disk size and GPU memory requirements by approximately 75%.

Only the weights of the linear operators within transformers blocks are quantized. Symmetric per-channel quantization is applied, in which a linear scaling per output dimension maps the INT4 and floating point representations of the quantized weights. The GPTQ algorithm is applied for quantization, as implemented in the AutoGPTQ library. GPTQ used a 1% damping factor and 512 sequences of 8,192 random tokens.

Deployment

This model can be deployed efficiently using the vLLM backend, as shown in the example below.

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_id = "neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16"
number_gpus = 1
max_model_len = 8192

sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.9, max_tokens=256)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a pirate chatbot who always responds in pirate speak!"},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]

prompts = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=False)

llm = LLM(model=model_id, tensor_parallel_size=number_gpus, max_model_len=max_model_len)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

generated_text = outputs[0].outputs[0].text
print(generated_text)

vLLM aslo supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the documentation for more details.

Creation

This model was created by applying the AutoGPTQ library as presented in the code snipet below. Although AutoGPTQ was used for this particular model, Neural Magic is transitioning to using llm-compressor which supports several quantization schemes and models not supported by AutoGPTQ.

from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from datasets import Dataset
from llmcompressor.transformers import SparseAutoModelForCausalLM, oneshot
from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import GPTQModifier
import random

model_id = "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct"

num_samples = 512
max_seq_len = 8192

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

preprocess_fn = lambda example: {"text": "Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.\n\n{text}".format_map(example)}

dataset_name = "neuralmagic/LLM_compression_calibration"
dataset = load_dataset(dataset_name, split="train")
ds = dataset.shuffle().select(range(num_samples))
ds = ds.map(preprocess_fn)

recipe = GPTQModifier(
  targets="Linear",
  scheme="W4A16",
  ignore=["lm_head"],
  dampening_frac=0.01,
)

model = SparseAutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
  model_id,
  device_map="auto",
  trust_remote_code=True,
)

oneshot(
  model=model,
  dataset=ds,
  recipe=recipe,
  max_seq_length=max_seq_len,
  num_calibration_samples=num_samples,
)
model.save_pretrained("Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16")

Evaluation

The model was evaluated on the OpenLLM leaderboard tasks (version 1) with the lm-evaluation-harness (commit 383bbd54bc621086e05aa1b030d8d4d5635b25e6) and the vLLM engine, using the following command:

lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.4,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4096,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks openllm \
  --batch_size auto

Accuracy

Open LLM Leaderboard evaluation scores

Benchmark	Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4	Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 (this model)	Recovery (this model)
MMLU (5-shot)	67.94	66.33	65.38	96.23%
ARC Challenge (25-shot)	60.41	58.36	59.30	98.16%
GSM-8K (5-shot, strict-match)	75.66	74.07	75.43	99.69%
Hellaswag (10-shot)	80.01	79.18	79.05	98.80%
Winogrande (5-shot)	77.90	76.00	76.08	97.66%
TruthfulQA (0-shot)	54.04	51.91	50.19	92.8%
Average	69.33	67.64	67.57	97.47%