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 INT8 and floating point representations of the quantized weights. AutoGPTQ is used for quantization with 10% damping factor and 768 sequences taken from Neural Magic's LLM compression calibration dataset.

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 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 (branch llama_3.1_instruct) and the vLLM 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.

Accuracy

Open LLM Leaderboard evaluation scores

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

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