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license: cc-by-nc-4.0

Model Details

MobileLLM is introduced: "MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use Cases", published in ICML 2024.

Model Developer: Meta

Model Architecture: MobileLLM is an auto-regressive language model leveraging an optimized transformer architecture, specifically engineered for on-device applications with constrained resources. MobileLLM integrated several key techniques including: (1) SwiGLU activation function, (2) deep and thin architectures, (3) embedding sharing, (4) grouped-query attention. MobileLLM-125M/350M attains a remarkable 2.7%/4.3% accuracy boost over preceding 125M/350M SoTA models on zero-shot commonsense reasoning tasks. In our updated version, we further demonstrate that our design philosophy scales effectively to larger models, with SoTA results for MobileLLM-600M/1B/1.5B.

	# Layers	# Attnetion Heads	# KV Heads	Token Dimension	Params
MobileLLM-125M	30	9	3	576	124.6M
MobileLLM-350M	32	15	5	960	345.3M
MobileLLM-600M	40	18	6	1152	603.1M
MobileLLM-1B	54	20	5	1280	1.01B
MobileLLM-1.5B	54	25	5	1600	1.51B

	Training Data	Input modalities	Output modalities	Context Length	GQA	Shared Embeddings	Token count
MobileLLM-125M	Publicly available online data.	Text	Text	2k	Yes	Yes	1T tokens
MobileLLM-350M	Publicly available online data.	Text	Text	2k	Yes	Yes	1T tokens
MobileLLM-600M	Publicly available online data.	Text	Text	2k	Yes	Yes	1T tokens
MobileLLM-1B	Publicly available online data.	Text	Text	2k	Yes	Yes	1T tokens
MobileLLM-1.5B	Publicly available online data.	Text	Text	2k	Yes	Yes	1T tokens

How to use

We are providing 2 ways to run the model:

HuggingFace

MobileLLM codebase

HuggingFace

To load the pretrained model for further finetuning or evaluation:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("facebook/MobileLLM-350M")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("facebook/MobileLLM-350M", trust_remote_code=True)

Note that the default tokenizer does not contain special tokens. For example you can use:

tokenizer.add_special_tokens(
    {
        "eos_token": "</s>",
        "bos_token": "<s>",
        "unk_token": "<unk>",
    }
)

MobileLLM codebase

We provide the pretraining code in https://github.com/facebookresearch/MobileLLM

> git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/MobileLLM
> pip install -r requirement.txt

# data pre-process and specify the data path in pretrain.sh
# run pretraining
> bash pretrain.sh

We also provide evaluation script for calculating wiki2 testset ppl

> bash eval.sh

You can find more details in the GitHub repo.

Training cost

It takes the following number of days to train MobileLLM on 1T tokens using 32 NVIDIA A100 80G GPUs.

125M	350M	600M	1B	1.5B
~3 days	~6 days	~8 days	~12 days	~18 days

Evaluation

We evaluate the pretrained MobileLLM models on Zero-shot Common Sense Reasoning tasks

MobileLLM-125M

model	boolq	piqa	siqa	hellaswag	winogrande	arc_easy	arc_challenge	obqa	avg.
OPT-125M	41.3	25.2	57.5	62.0	41.9	31.1	31.2	50.8	42.6
GPT-neo-125M	40.7	24.8	61.3	62.5	41.9	29.7	31.6	50.7	42.9
Pythia-160M	40.0	25.3	59.5	62.0	41.5	29.9	31.2	50.9	42.5
MobileLLM-125M	43.9	27.1	60.2	65.3	42.4	38.9	39.5	53.1	46.3
MobileLLM-LS-125M	45.8	28.7	60.4	65.7	42.9	39.5	41.1	52.1	47.0

MobileLLM-350M

model	boolq	piqa	siqa	hellaswag	winogrande	arc_easy	arc_challenge	obqa	avg.
OPT-350M	41.9	25.7	54.0	64.8	42.6	36.2	33.3	52.4	43.9
Pythia-410M	47.1	30.3	55.3	67.2	43.1	40.1	36.2	53.4	46.6
MobileLLM-350M	53.8	33.5	62.4	68.6	44.7	49.6	40.0	57.6	51.3
MobileLLM-LS-350M	54.4	32.5	62.8	69.8	44.1	50.6	45.8	57.2	52.1

MobileLLM-600M

model	boolq	piqa	siqa	hellaswag	winogrande	arc_easy	arc_challenge	obqa	avg.
Qwen1.5-500M	54.7	32.1	46.9	68.9	46.0	48.8	37.7	55.0	48.8
BLOOM-560M	43.7	27.5	53.7	65.1	42.5	36.5	32.6	52.2	44.2
MobiLlama-800M	52.0	31.7	54.6	73.0	43.3	52.3	42.5	56.3	50.7
MobileLLM-600M	58.1	35.8	61.0	72.3	44.9	55.9	47.9	58.6	54.3

MobileLLM-1B

model	boolq	piqa	siqa	hellaswag	winogrande	arc_easy	arc_challenge	obqa	avg.
Pythia-1B	49.9	30.4	58.7	69.2	43.3	47.4	38.6	52.2	48.7
MobiLlama-1B	59.7	38.4	59.2	74.5	44.9	62.0	43.7	59.0	55.2
Falcon-1B	59.5	38.4	63.9	74.6	44.6	62.9	45.6	60.9	56.3
BLOOM-1.1B	47.6	27.3	58.6	67.0	42.4	42.2	36.6	53.8	46.9
TinyLlama-1.1B	59.2	37.1	58.1	72.9	43.9	59.1	44.7	58.8	54.2
MobileLLM-1B	63.0	39.0	66.7	74.4	45.0	61.4	46.8	62.3	57.3

MobileLLM-1.5B

model	boolq	piqa	siqa	hellaswag	winogrande	arc_easy	arc_challenge	obqa	avg.
GPT-neo-1.3B	51.3	33.0	61.8	70.9	43.7	48.6	41.2	54.5	50.6
OPT-1.3B	54.4	31.7	58.4	71.5	44.7	53.7	44.6	59.1	52.3
BLOOM-1.7B	50.9	31.2	61.7	70.0	43.2	47.2	36.2	56.1	49.6
Qwen1.5-1.8B	61.1	36.5	68.3	74.1	47.2	60.4	42.9	61.2	56.5
GPT-neo-2.7B	55.8	34.3	62.4	72.9	43.6	55.6	40.0	57.9	52.8
OPT-2.7B	56.6	34.6	61.8	74.5	45.6	60.2	48.2	59.6	55.1
Pythia-2.8B	59.4	38.9	66.1	73.8	44.5	59.6	45.0	59.4	55.8
BLOOM-3B	55.1	33.6	62.1	70.5	43.2	53.9	41.6	58.2	52.3
MobileLLM-1.5B	67.5	40.9	65.7	74.8	46.4	64.5	50.5	64.7	59.4

Citation

If you find our code useful for your research, please consider citing:

@article{liu2024mobilellm,
    title={MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use Cases},
    author={Liu, Zechun and Zhao, Changsheng and Iandola, Forrest and Lai, Chen and Tian, Yuandong and Fedorov, Igor and Xiong, Yunyang and Chang, Ernie and Shi, Yangyang and Krishnamoorthi, Raghuraman and others},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.14905},
    year={2024}
}

License

MobileLLM is CC-BY-NC 4.0 licensed as of now.