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tool icon LLM Compressor

llmcompressor is an easy-to-use library for optimizing models for deployment with vllm, including:

  • Comprehensive set of quantization algorithms for weight-only and activation quantization
  • Seamless integration with Hugging Face models and repositories
  • safetensors-based file format compatible with vllm
  • Large model support via accelerate

✨ Read the announcement blog here! ✨

LLM Compressor Flow

Supported Formats

  • Activation Quantization: W8A8 (int8 and fp8)
  • Mixed Precision: W4A16, W8A16
  • 2:4 Semi-structured and Unstructured Sparsity

Supported Algorithms

  • Simple PTQ
  • GPTQ
  • SmoothQuant
  • SparseGPT

When to Use Which Optimization

Please refer to docs/schemes.md for detailed information about available optimization schemes and their use cases.

Installation

pip install llmcompressor

Get Started

End-to-End Examples

Applying quantization with llmcompressor:

User Guides

Deep dives into advanced usage of llmcompressor:

Quick Tour

Let's quantize TinyLlama with 8 bit weights and activations using the GPTQ and SmoothQuant algorithms.

Note that the model can be swapped for a local or remote HF-compatible checkpoint and the recipe may be changed to target different quantization algorithms or formats.

Apply Quantization

Quantization is applied by selecting an algorithm and calling the oneshot API.

from llmcompressor.modifiers.smoothquant import SmoothQuantModifier
from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import GPTQModifier
from llmcompressor import oneshot

# Select quantization algorithm. In this case, we:
#   * apply SmoothQuant to make the activations easier to quantize
#   * quantize the weights to int8 with GPTQ (static per channel)
#   * quantize the activations to int8 (dynamic per token)
recipe = [
    SmoothQuantModifier(smoothing_strength=0.8),
    GPTQModifier(scheme="W8A8", targets="Linear", ignore=["lm_head"]),
]

# Apply quantization using the built in open_platypus dataset.
#   * See examples for demos showing how to pass a custom calibration set
oneshot(
    model="TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0",
    dataset="open_platypus",
    recipe=recipe,
    output_dir="TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-INT8",
    max_seq_length=2048,
    num_calibration_samples=512,
)

Inference with vLLM

The checkpoints created by llmcompressor can be loaded and run in vllm:

Install:

pip install vllm

Run:

from vllm import LLM
model = LLM("TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-INT8")
output = model.generate("My name is")

Questions / Contribution

  • If you have any questions or requests open an issue and we will add an example or documentation.
  • We appreciate contributions to the code, examples, integrations, and documentation as well as bug reports and feature requests! Learn how here.

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