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 Llama 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 or TGI 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, again pass the quantization=awq and dtype=float16 parameters.
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/openbuddy-llama2-70B-v13-base-AWQ", quantization="awq", dtype="float16")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}")
Serving this model from Text Generation Inference (TGI)
Use TGI version 1.1.0 or later. The official Docker container is: ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:1.1.0
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Original model card: OpenBuddy's OpenBuddy Llama2 70B v13 Base
⚠️ About Base-series Models ⚠️
This is a part of the Base-series models, trained utilizing approximately 50% of conversational data. It embodies cognitive and dialogue capabilities parallel to the fully-trained OpenBuddy models, yet it hasn’t been extensively fine-tuned for generic conversational tasks.
We released this model intending to empower the community, enabling further fine-tuning and deployment of specialized, domain-specific models.
For immediate use in generic conversations, consider referring to our versions that without the -base suffix.
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