Context Length and GPU VRAM Usage in CodeLlama-7B

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by humza-sami - opened

I am currently using CodeLlama-7B on an RTX 3090 24GB GPU, and I have a question regarding the relationship between context length and VRAM usage. According to the model documentation, the context length of CodeLlama-7B is 16,384 tokens.

I loaded the model using Hugging Face with 8-bit precision as follows:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

agent_name = "codellama/CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf"
agent = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(agent_name, device_map='cuda', load_in_8bit=True)
agent_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(agent_name, add_special_tokens=False, add_eos_token=False, add_bos_token=False)

I then tested the model with different input lengths. For a 3000-token input, the GPU VRAM usage was 16GB. However, when I provided a 6000-token input, the GPU VRAM spiked to 22GB. My primary concern is understanding the relationship between context length and VRAM usage.

Code for Reference:

text = 6000 * "hello "
encoded_input = agent_tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
response = agent.generate(**encoded_input, max_new_tokens=4000, do_sample=True, temperature=0.25)

Questions:

  1. Is my understanding correct that the model can handle inputs up to its context length of 16,384 tokens?
  2. Could you provide insights into the observed increase in VRAM usage from a 3000-token input to a 6000-token input?
  3. Considering my intention to use CodeLlama-7B with a context length of up to 8000 tokens, would the 24GB VRAM of my RTX 3090 be sufficient?

Any clarification on these matters would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Code Llama org

An easy relationship is the amount of past_key_values that you need to keep track of. The longer the sequence, the more context you have, the bigger the cache and the bigger the RAM usage !

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