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.
Note: at the time of writing, vLLM has not yet done a new release with AWQ support.
If you try the vLLM examples below and get an error about quantization being unrecognised, or other AWQ-related issues, please install vLLM from Github source.
When using vLLM as a server, pass the --quantization awq parameter, for example:
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/CollectiveCognition-v1-Mistral-7B-AWQ", quantization="awq", dtype="half")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: Teknium's CollectiveCognition v1 Mistral 7B
Collective Cognition v1 is a Mistral model fine-tuned using just 100 GPT-4 chats shared on Collective Cognition.
Special Features:
Quick Training: This model was trained in just 3 minutes on a single 4090 with a qlora, and competes with 70B scale Llama-2 Models at TruthfulQA.
Limited Data: Despite its exceptional performance, it was trained on only ONE HUNDRED data points, all of which were gathered from Collective Cognition, a platform reminiscent of ShareGPT.
Extreme TruthfulQA Benchmark: The collective cognition models are competing strongly with top 70B models on the TruthfulQA benchmark despite the small dataset and qlora training!
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Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to @a16z and all contributors to the Collective Cognition dataset for making the development of this model possible.
Dataset:
The model was trained using data from the Collective Cognition website. The efficacy of this dataset is demonstrated by the model's stellar performance, suggesting that further expansion of this dataset could yield even more promising results. The data is reminiscent of that collected from platforms like ShareGPT.
You can contribute to the growth of the dataset by sharing your own ChatGPT chats here.
TruthfulQA: Collective Cognition v1 and v1.1 in particular have notably outperformed several models on the TruthfulQA benchmark, highlighting its ability to understand and rectify common misconceptions.
The model follows a LIMA approach, by minimizing the base model's original training as little as possible and giving a small but very high quality dataset to enhance it's performance and style.
