README.md

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pipeline_tag: text-generation
license: llama3.1
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# 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](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/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](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct).
It achieves an average score of 67.57 on the [OpenLLM](https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard) 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](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/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 INT8 and floating point representations of the quantized weights.
[AutoGPTQ](https://github.com/AutoGPTQ/AutoGPTQ) is used for quantization with 10% damping factor and 768 sequences taken from Neural Magic's [LLM compression calibration dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/neuralmagic/LLM_compression_calibration).


## Deployment

This model can be deployed efficiently using the [vLLM](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/) backend, as shown in the example below.

```python
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](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/) for more details.


## Creation

This model was created by applying the [AutoGPTQ](https://github.com/AutoGPTQ/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](https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor) which supports several quantization schemes and models not supported by AutoGPTQ.

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from auto_gptq import AutoGPTQForCausalLM, BaseQuantizeConfig
from datasets import load_dataset

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

num_samples = 756
max_seq_len = 4064

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

def preprocess_fn(example):
  return {"text": tokenizer.apply_chat_template(example["messages"], add_generation_prompt=False, tokenize=False)}

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

examples = [tokenizer(example["text"], padding=False, max_length=max_seq_len, truncation=True) for example in ds]
    
quantize_config = BaseQuantizeConfig(
  bits=4,
  group_size=128,
  desc_act=True,
  model_file_base_name="model",
  damp_percent=0.1,
)

model = AutoGPTQForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
  model_id,
  quantize_config,
  device_map="auto",
)

model.quantize(examples)
model.save_pretrained("Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16")
```



## Evaluation

The model was evaluated on MMLU, ARC-Challenge, GSM-8K, Hellaswag, Winogrande and TruthfulQA.
Evaluation was conducted using the Neural Magic fork of [lm-evaluation-harness](https://github.com/neuralmagic/lm-evaluation-harness/tree/llama_3.1_instruct) (branch llama_3.1_instruct) and the [vLLM](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/) engine.
This version of the lm-evaluation-harness includes versions of MMLU, ARC-Challenge and GSM-8K that match the prompting style of [Meta-Llama-3.1-Instruct-evals](https://huggingface.co/datasets/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-evals).

### Accuracy

#### Open LLM Leaderboard evaluation scores
<table>
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Benchmark</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct </strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 (this model)</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Recovery</strong>
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>MMLU (5-shot)
   </td>
   <td>69.43
   </td>
   <td>67.68
   </td>
   <td>97.5%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>MMLU (CoT, 0-shot)
   </td>
   <td>72.56
   </td>
   <td>70.36
   </td>
   <td>97.0%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>ARC Challenge (0-shot)
   </td>
   <td>81.57
   </td>
   <td>79.95
   </td>
   <td>98.0%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>GSM-8K (CoT, 8-shot, strict-match)
   </td>
   <td>82.79
   </td>
   <td>79.53
   </td>
   <td>96.1%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Hellaswag (10-shot)
   </td>
   <td>80.01
   </td>
   <td>78.57
   </td>
   <td>98.2%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Winogrande (5-shot)
   </td>
   <td>77.90
   </td>
   <td>76.48
   </td>
   <td>98.2%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>TruthfulQA (0-shot, mc2)
   </td>
   <td>54.04
   </td>
   <td>50.46
   </td>
   <td>93.4%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Average</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>74.04</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>71.86</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>97.1%</strong>
   </td>
  </tr>
</table>

### Reproduction

The results were obtained using the following commands:

#### MMLU
```
lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a16",dtype=auto,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=3850,max_gen_toks=10,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks mmlu_llama_3.1_instruct \
  --fewshot_as_multiturn \
  --apply_chat_template \
  --num_fewshot 5 \
  --batch_size auto
```

#### MMLU-CoT
```
lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a16",dtype=auto,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4064,max_gen_toks=1024,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks mmlu_cot_0shot_llama_3.1_instruct \
  --apply_chat_template \
  --num_fewshot 0 \
  --batch_size auto
```

#### ARC-Challenge
```
lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a16",dtype=auto,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=3940,max_gen_toks=100,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks arc_challenge_llama_3.1_instruct \
  --apply_chat_template \
  --num_fewshot 0 \
  --batch_size auto
```

#### GSM-8K
```
lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a16",dtype=auto,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4096,max_gen_toks=1024,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks gsm8k_cot_llama_3.1_instruct \
  --fewshot_as_multiturn \
  --apply_chat_template \
  --num_fewshot 8 \
  --batch_size auto
```

#### Hellaswag
```
lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a16",dtype=auto,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4096,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks hellaswag \
  --num_fewshot 10 \
  --batch_size auto
```

#### Winogrande
```
lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a16",dtype=auto,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4096,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks winogrande \
  --num_fewshot 5 \
  --batch_size auto
```

#### TruthfulQA
```
lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a16",dtype=auto,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4096,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks truthfulqa \
  --num_fewshot 0 \
  --batch_size auto
```