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## News đ
- \[2023/08\] TurboMind supports 4-bit quantization and inference.
- \[2023/07\] TurboMind supports Llama-2 70B with GQA.
- \[2023/07\] TurboMind supports Llama-2 7B/13B.
- \[2023/07\] TurboMind supports tensor-parallel inference of InternLM.
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## Introduction
LMDeploy is a toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLM, developed by the [MMRazor](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmrazor) and [MMDeploy](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdeploy) teams. It has the following core features:
- **Efficient Inference Engine (TurboMind)**: Based on [FasterTransformer](https://github.com/NVIDIA/FasterTransformer), we have implemented an efficient inference engine - TurboMind, which supports the inference of LLaMA and its variant models on NVIDIA GPUs.
- **Interactive Inference Mode**: By caching the k/v of attention during multi-round dialogue processes, it remembers dialogue history, thus avoiding repetitive processing of historical sessions.
- **Multi-GPU Model Deployment and Quantization**: We provide comprehensive model deployment and quantification support, and have been validated at different scales.
- **Persistent Batch Inference**: Further optimization of model execution efficiency.

## Performance
**Case I**: output token throughput with fixed input token and output token number (1, 2048)
**Case II**: request throughput with real conversation data
Test Setting: LLaMA-7B, NVIDIA A100(80G)
The output token throughput of TurboMind exceeds 2000 tokens/s, which is about 5% - 15% higher than DeepSpeed overall and outperforms huggingface transformers by up to 2.3x.
And the request throughput of TurboMind is 30% higher than vLLM.

## Quick Start
### Installation
Install lmdeploy with pip ( python 3.8+) or [from source](./docs/en/build.md)
```shell
pip install lmdeploy
```
### Deploy InternLM
#### Get InternLM model
```shell
# 1. Download InternLM model
# Make sure you have git-lfs installed (https://git-lfs.com)
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/internlm/internlm-chat-7b /path/to/internlm-chat-7b
# if you want to clone without large files â just their pointers
# prepend your git clone with the following env var:
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1
# 2. Convert InternLM model to turbomind's format, which will be in "./workspace" by default
python3 -m lmdeploy.serve.turbomind.deploy internlm-chat-7b /path/to/internlm-chat-7b
```
#### Inference by TurboMind
```shell
python -m lmdeploy.turbomind.chat ./workspace
```
> **Note**
> When inferring with FP16 precision, the InternLM-7B model requires at least 15.7G of GPU memory overhead on TurboMind.
> It is recommended to use NVIDIA cards such as 3090, V100, A100, etc.
> Disable GPU ECC can free up 10% memory, try `sudo nvidia-smi --ecc-config=0` and reboot system.
> **Note**
> Tensor parallel is available to perform inference on multiple GPUs. Add `--tp=` on `chat` to enable runtime TP.
#### Serving with gradio
```shell
python3 -m lmdeploy.serve.gradio.app ./workspace
```

#### Serving with Triton Inference Server
Launch inference server by:
```shell
bash workspace/service_docker_up.sh
```
Then, you can communicate with the inference server by command line,
```shell
python3 -m lmdeploy.serve.client {server_ip_addresss}:33337
```
or webui,
```shell
python3 -m lmdeploy.serve.gradio.app {server_ip_addresss}:33337
```
For the deployment of other supported models, such as LLaMA, LLaMA-2, vicuna and so on, you can find the guide from [here](docs/en/serving.md)
### Inference with PyTorch
For detailed instructions on Inference pytorch models, see [here](docs/en/pytorch.md).
#### Single GPU
```shell
python3 -m lmdeploy.pytorch.chat $NAME_OR_PATH_TO_HF_MODEL \
--max_new_tokens 64 \
--temperture 0.8 \
--top_p 0.95 \
--seed 0
```
#### Tensor Parallel with DeepSpeed
```shell
deepspeed --module --num_gpus 2 lmdeploy.pytorch.chat \
$NAME_OR_PATH_TO_HF_MODEL \
--max_new_tokens 64 \
--temperture 0.8 \
--top_p 0.95 \
--seed 0
```
You need to install deepspeed first to use this feature.
```
pip install deepspeed
```
## Quantization
### Step 1. Obtain Quantization Parameters
First, run the quantization script to obtain the quantization parameters.
> After execution, various parameters needed for quantization will be stored in `$WORK_DIR`; these will be used in the following steps..
```
python3 -m lmdeploy.lite.apis.calibrate \
--model $HF_MODEL \
--calib_dataset 'c4' \ # Calibration dataset, supports c4, ptb, wikitext2, pileval
--calib_samples 128 \ # Number of samples in the calibration set, if memory is insufficient, you can appropriately reduce this
--calib_seqlen 2048 \ # Length of a single piece of text, if memory is insufficient, you can appropriately reduce this
--work_dir $WORK_DIR \ # Folder storing Pytorch format quantization statistics parameters and post-quantization weight
```
### Step 2. Actual Model Quantization
`LMDeploy` supports INT4 quantization of weights and INT8 quantization of KV Cache. Run the corresponding script according to your needs.
#### Weight INT4 Quantization
LMDeploy uses AWQ algorithm for model weight quantization
> Requires input from the $WORK_DIR of step 1, and the quantized weights will also be stored in this folder.
```
python3 -m lmdeploy.lite.apis.auto_awq \
--w_bits 4 \ # Bit number for weight quantization
--w_sym False \ # Whether to use symmetric quantization for weights
--w_group_size 128 \ # Group size for weight quantization statistics
--work_dir $WORK_DIR \ # Directory saving quantization parameters from Step 1
```
#### KV Cache INT8 Quantization
In fp16 mode, kv_cache int8 quantization can be enabled, and a single card can serve more users.
First execute the quantization script, and the quantization parameters are stored in the `workspace/triton_models/weights` transformed by `deploy.py`.
```
python3 -m lmdeploy.lite.apis.kv_qparams \
--work_dir $WORK_DIR \ # Directory saving quantization parameters from Step 1
--turbomind_dir $TURBOMIND_DIR \
--kv_sym False \ # Whether to use symmetric or asymmetric quantization.
--num_tp 1 \ # The number of GPUs used for tensor parallelism
```
Then adjust `workspace/triton_models/weights/config.ini`
- `use_context_fmha` changed to 0, means off
- `quant_policy` is set to 4. This parameter defaults to 0, which means it is not enabled
Here is [quantization test results](./docs/en/quantization.md).
> **Warning**
> runtime Tensor Parallel for quantilized model is not available. Please setup `--tp` on `deploy` to enable static TP.
## Contributing
We appreciate all contributions to LMDeploy. Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for the contributing guideline.
## Acknowledgement
- [FasterTransformer](https://github.com/NVIDIA/FasterTransformer)
- [llm-awq](https://github.com/mit-han-lab/llm-awq)
## License
This project is released under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE).