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.

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Prompt template: None

{prompt}

Provided files and AWQ parameters

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.

Models are released as sharded safetensors files.

Branch	Bits	GS	AWQ Dataset	Seq Len	Size
main	4	128	c4	4096	7.25 GB

Serving this model from vLLM

Documentation on installing and using vLLM can be found here.

When using vLLM as a server, pass the --quantization awq parameter, for example:

python3 python -m vllm.entrypoints.api_server --model TheBloke/Yarn-Llama-2-13B-64K-AWQ --quantization awq

When using vLLM from Python code, pass the quantization=awq parameter, for example:

python

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

prompts = [
    "Hello, my name is",
    "The president of the United States is",
    "The capital of France is",
    "The future of AI is",
]
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)

llm = LLM(model="TheBloke/Yarn-Llama-2-13B-64K-AWQ", quantization="awq")

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

# Print the outputs.
for output in outputs:
    prompt = output.prompt
    generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
    print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")

How to use this AWQ model from Python code

Install the necessary packages

Requires: AutoAWQ 0.0.2 or later

pip3 install autoawq

If you have problems installing AutoAWQ using the pre-built wheels, install it from source instead:

shell

pip3 uninstall -y autoawq
git clone https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ
cd AutoAWQ
pip3 install .

You can then try the following example code

python

from awq import AutoAWQForCausalLM
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_name_or_path = "TheBloke/Yarn-Llama-2-13B-64K-AWQ"

# Load model
model = AutoAWQForCausalLM.from_quantized(model_name_or_path, fuse_layers=True,
                                          trust_remote_code=True, safetensors=True)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path, trust_remote_code=True)

prompt = "Tell me about AI"
prompt_template=f'''{prompt}

'''

print("\n\n*** Generate:")

tokens = tokenizer(
    prompt_template,
    return_tensors='pt'
).input_ids.cuda()

# Generate output
generation_output = model.generate(
    tokens,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.7,
    top_p=0.95,
    top_k=40,
    max_new_tokens=512
)

print("Output: ", tokenizer.decode(generation_output[0]))

# Inference can also be done using transformers' pipeline
from transformers import pipeline

print("*** Pipeline:")
pipe = pipeline(
    "text-generation",
    model=model,
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
    max_new_tokens=512,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.7,
    top_p=0.95,
    top_k=40,
    repetition_penalty=1.1
)

print(pipe(prompt_template)[0]['generated_text'])

Compatibility

The files provided are tested to work with AutoAWQ, and vLLM.

Huggingface Text Generation Inference (TGI) is not yet compatible with AWQ, but a PR is open which should bring support soon: TGI PR #781.

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Thanks, and how to contribute

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Original model card: NousResearch's Yarn Llama 2 13B 64K

Model Card: Nous-Yarn-Llama-2-13b-64k

Preprint (arXiv)
GitHub

Model Description

Nous-Yarn-Llama-2-13b-64k is a state-of-the-art language model for long context, further pretrained on long context data for 400 steps.
This model is the Flash Attention 2 patched version of the original model: https://huggingface.co/conceptofmind/Yarn-Llama-2-13b-64k

Note that this model requires the Flash Attention library in order to function correctly, see the Model Usage section for installation instructions.

Model Training

Starting from the base Llama 2 models, this model was further pretrained on a subset of the PG19 dataset, allowing it to effectively utilize up to 64k tokens of context.

Collaborators

bloc97: Methods, Paper and evals
@theemozilla: Methods, Paper and evals
@EnricoShippole: Model Training
honglu2875: Paper and evals

The authors would like to thank Stability AI, Carper AI, and Eleuther AI for their generous support of significant computing resources that enabled the training of these models and the completion of this research. We would also like to thank Jonathan Tow and Dakota Mahan directly for their help in advising on the use of the Stability AI compute cluster. Additionally, we would like to thank a16z, and PygmalionAI, for providing resources to run evaluations and experiments on the models.

Usage and Prompt Format

Install FA2 and Rotary Extensions:

pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
pip install git+https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention.git#subdirectory=csrc/rotary

There are no specific prompt formats as this is a pretrained base model.

Benchmark Results

TODO

Future Plans

We plan to continue training when we have more compute and to improve the dataset and/or instruct tune the models in order to improve the long context performance even further.

Model Usage

The model is available for download on HuggingFace.