SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8

Model Overview

• Model Architecture: Llama
  • Input: Text
  • Output: Text
• Model Optimizations:
  • Activation quantization: INT8
  • Weight quantization: INT8
• Intended Use Cases: Intended for commercial and research use in English. Similarly to SmolLM-1.7B-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: 8/23/2024
• Version: 1.0
• License(s): Apache-2.0
• Model Developers: Neural Magic

Quantized version of SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct. It achieves an average score of 41.23 on the OpenLLM benchmark (version 1), whereas the unquantized model achieves 41.76.

Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights of SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct to INT8 data type. This optimization reduces the number of bits per parameter from 16 to 8, reducing the disk size and GPU memory requirements by approximately 50%.

Only weights and activations of the linear operators within transformers blocks are quantized. Weights are quantized with a symmetric static per-channel scheme, where a fixed linear scaling factor is applied between INT8 and floating point representations for each output channel dimension. Activations are quantized with a symmetric dynamic per-token scheme, computing a linear scaling factor at runtime for each token between INT8 and floating point representations. The GPTQ algorithm is applied for quantization, as implemented in the llm-compressor library. GPTQ used a 1% damping factor and 1,024 sequences sequences taken from Neural Magic's LLM compression calibration dataset.

Deployment

Use with vLLM

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/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8"

sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.92, max_tokens=100)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "List the steps to bake a chocolate cake from scratch."},
]

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

llm = LLM(model=model_id)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

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

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

Creation

This model was created by using the llm-compressor library as presented in the code snipet below.

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

model_id = "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct"

num_samples = 1024
max_seq_len = 2048

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)

recipe = GPTQModifier(
  targets="Linear",
  scheme="W8A8",
  ignore=["lm_head"],
  dampening_frac=0.01,
)

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

oneshot(
  model=model,
  dataset=ds,
  recipe=recipe,
  max_seq_length=max_seq_len,
  num_calibration_samples=num_samples,
)
model.save_pretrained("SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8")

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/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.4,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4096 \
  --tasks openllm \
  --batch_size auto

Accuracy

Open LLM Leaderboard evaluation scores

Benchmark	SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized	SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8 (this model)	Recovery
MMLU (5-shot)	28.10	27.54	98.0%
ARC Challenge (25-shot)	49.06	48.98	99.8%
GSM-8K (5-shot, strict-match)	4.93	3.87	78.5%
Hellaswag (10-shot)	66.96	66.25	98.9%
Winogrande (5-shot)	61.01	60.54	99.2%
TruthfulQA (0-shot)	40.48	40.21	99.3%
Average	41.76	41.23	98.7%