AWQ is an efficient, accurate and blazing-fast low-bit weight quantization method, currently supporting 4-bit quantization. Compared to GPTQ, it offers faster Transformers-based inference.
It is also now supported by continuous batching server vLLM, allowing use of AWQ models for high-throughput concurrent inference in multi-user server scenarios. Note that, at the time of writing, overall throughput is still lower than running vLLM with unquantised models, however using AWQ enables using much smaller GPUs which can lead to easier deployment and overall cost savings. For example, a 70B model can be run on 1 x 48GB GPU instead of 2 x 80GB.
For my first release of AWQ models, I am releasing 128g models only. I will consider adding 32g as well if there is interest, and once I have done perplexity and evaluation comparisons, but at this time 32g models are still not fully tested with AutoAWQ and vLLM.
When using vLLM from Python code, pass the quantization=awq parameter, for example:
python
1from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
23prompts =[4"Hello, my name is",5"The president of the United States is",6"The capital of France is",7"The future of AI is",8]9sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)1011llm = LLM(model="TheBloke/LLongMA-2-7B-AWQ", quantization="awq")1213outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)1415# Print the outputs.16for output in outputs:17 prompt = output.prompt
18 generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
19print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
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Original model card: ConceptofMind's LLongMA 2 7B
LLongMA-2, a suite of Llama-2 models, trained at 8k context length using linear positional interpolation scaling. The model was trained in collaboration with Emozilla of NousResearch and Kaiokendev.
We worked directly with Kaiokendev, to extend the context length of the Llama-2 7b model through fine-tuning. The models pass all our evaluations and maintain the same perplexity at 8k extrapolation surpassing the performance of other recent methodologies.
The model has identical performance to LLaMA 2 under 4k context length, performance scales directly to 8k, and works out-of-the-box with the new version of transformers (4.31) or with trust_remote_code for <= 4.30.
Applying the method to the rotary position embedding requires only slight changes to the model's code by dividing the positional index, t, by a scaling factor.
If you would like to learn more about scaling rotary embeddings, I would strongly recommend reading u/kaiokendev's blog posts on his findings: https://kaiokendev.github.io/
I would also recommend checking out the phenomenal research by Ofir Press on ALiBi which laid the foundation for many of these scaling techniques: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12409
It is also worth reviewing the paper, A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer, and xPos technique which also applies scaling to rotary embeddings: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.10554.pdf
The compute for this model release is all thanks to the generous sponsorship by CarperAI, Emad Mostaque, and StabilityAI. This is not an official StabilityAI product.
If you have any questions about the data or model be sure to reach out and ask! I will try to respond promptly.
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