README.md

---
tags:
- fp8
- vllm
license: llama3.1
license_link: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B/blob/main/LICENSE
language:
- en
---

# Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-FP8

## Model Overview
- **Model Architecture:** Meta-Llama-3.1
  - **Input:** Text
  - **Output:** Text
- **Model Optimizations:**
  - **Weight quantization:** FP8
  - **Activation quantization:** FP8
- **Intended Use Cases:** Intended for commercial and research use in multiple languages. Similarly to [Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-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:** 7/24/2024
- **Version:** 1.0
- **License(s):** [llama3.1](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Model Developers:** Neural Magic

Quantized version of [Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct).
It achieves an average score of 86.41 on the [OpenLLM](https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard) benchmark (version 1), whereas the unquantized model achieves 86.63.

### Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights and activations of [Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct) to FP8 data type, ready for inference with vLLM built from source.
This optimization reduces the number of bits per parameter from 16 to 8, reducing the disk size and GPU memory requirements by approximately 50%. In particular, this model can now be loaded and evaluated with a single node of 8xH100 GPUs, as opposed to multiple nodes.

Only the weights and activations of the linear operators within transformers blocks are quantized. Symmetric per-tensor quantization is applied, in which a single linear scaling maps the FP8 representations of the quantized weights and activations.
[LLM Compressor](https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor) is used for quantization with 512 sequences of UltraChat.

## Deployment

### Use with vLLM

This model can be deployed efficiently using the [vLLM](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/) backend, as shown in the example below.

```python
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_id = "neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-FP8"
number_gpus = 8

sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.9, max_tokens=256)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a pirate chatbot who always responds in pirate speak!"},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]

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

llm = LLM(model=model_id, tensor_parallel_size=number_gpus, max_model_len=4096)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

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

vLLM aslo supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the [documentation](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/) for more details.

## Creation

This model was created by applying [LLM Compressor with calibration samples from UltraChat](https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor/blob/sa/big_model_support/examples/big_model_offloading/big_model_w8a8_calibrate.py), as presented in the code snipet below.

```python
import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

from llmcompressor.transformers import SparseAutoModelForCausalLM, oneshot
from llmcompressor.transformers.compression.helpers import (
    calculate_offload_device_map,
    custom_offload_device_map,
)

recipe = """
quant_stage:
    quant_modifiers:
        QuantizationModifier:
            ignore: ["lm_head"]
            config_groups:
                group_0:
                    weights:
                        num_bits: 8
                        type: float
                        strategy: tensor
                        dynamic: false
                        symmetric: true
                    input_activations:
                        num_bits: 8
                        type: float
                        strategy: tensor
                        dynamic: false
                        symmetric: true
                    targets: ["Linear"]
"""

model_stub = "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct"
model_name = model_stub.split("/")[-1]

device_map = calculate_offload_device_map(
    model_stub, reserve_for_hessians=False, num_gpus=8, torch_dtype=torch.float16
)

model = SparseAutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_stub, torch_dtype=torch.float16, device_map=device_map
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_stub)

output_dir = f"./{model_name}-FP8"

DATASET_ID = "HuggingFaceH4/ultrachat_200k"
DATASET_SPLIT = "train_sft"
NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES = 512
MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH = 4096

ds = load_dataset(DATASET_ID, split=DATASET_SPLIT)
ds = ds.shuffle(seed=42).select(range(NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES))

def preprocess(example):
    return {
        "text": tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
            example["messages"],
            tokenize=False,
        )
    }

ds = ds.map(preprocess)

def tokenize(sample):
    return tokenizer(
        sample["text"],
        padding=False,
        max_length=MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH,
        truncation=True,
        add_special_tokens=False,
    )

ds = ds.map(tokenize, remove_columns=ds.column_names)

oneshot(
    model=model,
    output_dir=output_dir,
    dataset=ds,
    recipe=recipe,
    max_seq_length=MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH,
    num_calibration_samples=NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES,
    save_compressed=True,
)
```

## Evaluation

The model was evaluated on the [OpenLLM](https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard) leaderboard tasks (version 1) with the [lm-evaluation-harness](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness) and the [vLLM](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/) engine, using the following command.
A modified version of ARC-C and GSM8k-cot was used for evaluations, in line with Llama 3.1's prompting. It can be accessed on the [Neural Magic fork of the lm-evaluation-harness](https://github.com/neuralmagic/lm-evaluation-harness/tree/llama_3.1_instruct).
Additional evaluations that were collected for the original Llama 3.1 models will be added in the future.
```
lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-FP8",dtype=auto,tensor_parallel_size=8,gpu_memory_utilization=0.755,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4096 \
  --tasks openllm \
  --batch_size auto
```

### Accuracy

#### Open LLM Leaderboard evaluation scores
<table>
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Benchmark</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct </strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-FP8(this model)</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Recovery</strong>
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>MMLU (5-shot)
   </td>
   <td>86.25
   </td>
   <td>86.06
   </td>
   <td>99.78%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>ARC Challenge (0-shot)
   </td>
   <td>96.93
   </td>
   <td>96.33
   </td>
   <td>99.38%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>GSM-8K-cot (8-shot, strict-match)
   </td>
   <td>96.44
   </td>
   <td>95.91
   </td>
   <td>99.45%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Hellaswag (10-shot)
   </td>
   <td>88.33
   </td>
   <td>88.25
   </td>
   <td>99.91%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Winogrande (5-shot)
   </td>
   <td>87.21
   </td>
   <td>86.98
   </td>
   <td>99.74%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>TruthfulQA (0-shot)
   </td>
   <td>64.64
   </td>
   <td>64.90
   </td>
   <td>100.4%
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Average</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>86.63</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>86.41</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>99.74%</strong>
   </td>
  </tr>
</table>