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Running large language models on a single GPU for throughput-oriented scenarios.
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Is FlexGen+GPTQ 4bit possible? #101

Open BarfingLemurs opened 1 year ago

BarfingLemurs commented 1 year ago

Just a curious question I suppose! GPTQ 4bit - https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa Suppose someone eventually finetunes 175B OPT model, with loras or regular finetunng. or perhaps the BLOOM or BLOOMZ model, would running inference be possible with GPTQ to allow the model to be run on 4gbvram and 50gb dram?

Ying1123 commented 1 year ago
  1. FlexGen has support for 4-bit compression, see sec 5 in paper, and weights compression https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen/blob/bbc9ea9670c496cd31dbb2c4b04e9a1337d82d53/flexgen/flex_opt.py#L1306 cache compression https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen/blob/bbc9ea9670c496cd31dbb2c4b04e9a1337d82d53/flexgen/flex_opt.py#L1308
  2. The compression in FlexGen has computation overhead, so it is not always better to turn it on. For large models like 175B which involves disk swap, it is usually better to turn on both weights and cache compression.
  3. GPTQ 4bit has not been implemented in FlexGen.
  4. Even you use 4bit, the weights of an 175B model need to occupy ~90G memory. 4GB vram and 50GB dram is not sufficient.