GPU support Table & VRAM usage

[enricoros]

It would be great to get the instructions to run the 3B model locally on a gaming GPU (e.g. 3090/4090 with 24GB VRAM).

Confirmed GPUs

From this thread

GPU Model	VRAM (GB)	Tuned-3b	Tuned-7b
RTX 3090	24	✅	✅
RTX 4070 Ti	12	✅
RTX 4090	24		✅
T4	16	✅	❌
A100	40		✅

Best RAM/VRAM TRICKS (from this thread)

Convert models F32 -> F16 (lower RAM, faster load)

https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM/issues/17#issuecomment-1516104939

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, StoppingCriteria, StoppingCriteriaList

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b")
model.half().cuda()
model.save_pretrained('vvsotnikov/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b-16bit')
tokenizer.save_pretrained('vvsotnikov/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b-16bit')

Low-memory model loads

1. quantized 8bit (BitsAndBytes): https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM/issues/17#issuecomment-1516401676
2. torch_dtype=torch.float16 & low_cpu_mem_usage: https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM/issues/17#issuecomment-1516229594
3. device_map=auto: https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM/issues/17#issuecomment-1516281134

Other tricks

1. Streaming responses: https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM/issues/17#issuecomment-1516705971

Weights RAM/VRAM (GB)

model name	parameters	W (fp32)	W (fp16)	weights (VRAM)	load time (s)	works
stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b	3637321728	13.55	6.78	7.03	18.62	✅
stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b	7868755968	29.31	14.66	14.91	50.28	✅

• weights (fp32, GB): that's the minimum required RAM to load the model (before calling .half())
• weights (fp16, GB): that's the minimum VRAM when transferring the model to the GPU
• weights (fp16, VRAM): reported VRAM increase after loading the model

Activations

Empyrical (numbers in bytes, fp32):

• stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b: total_tokens * 1,280,582
• stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b: total_tokens * 1,869,134

The regression fits at 0.99999989. For instance, with 32 input tokens and an output of 512, the activations are: 969 MB of VAM (almost 1 GB) will be required. Haven't tested with Batch not equal 1.

Examples of a few recorded activations numbers:	model	input_tokens	out_tokens	total_tokens	VRAM (MB)
3b	3072	1024	4096	5003
3b	1024	512	1536	1875
3b	64	1	65	78.19
3b	8	1	9	9.77
7b	3072	1024	4096	7304.22
7b	2048	512	2560	4564.47
7b	8	64	72	126.64
7b	8	1	9	14.27

[python273]

3B f16 runs on 2080ti. Though you might need a lot of RAM to convert f32 to f16, peak is like 24G

calculation of lower bound of VRAM in GiB:

# 3B f16
>>> (3_638_525_952 * 2) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024
6.77728271484375
# 3B f32
>>> (3_638_525_952 * 4) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024
13.5545654296875
# 7B f16
>>> (7_869_358_080 * 2) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024
14.657821655273438
# 7B f32
>>> (7_869_358_080 * 4) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024
29.315643310546875

[jamiecropley]

Does it run on AMD? I can try AMD RX 480 😎

[fche]

Tesla P40 (24GB) - works

[Loufe]

Best bet is 4bit quantization. 7B will likely run in 6gigs of VRAM at that level, as that's about the requirement for 7b with LLaMa.

[astrobleem]

Got 7B models working on my Tesla M40 w/ 24GB ram

[markacola]

Got the 7B running fine on my 4090.

[aleimu]

Keep eyes on this issues

[octimot]

Not a gaming PC, but I just tried the Colab notebook with 83.5GB of System RAM and A100 with 40GB.

It's insanely fast to initialize and the prompts on the tuned-alpha-7B model took around 2 seconds to complete.

[kasima]

Able to run the tuned-alpha-3b on a 4070 Ti (12GB)

[vvsotnikov]

For the sake of convenience (2x less download size/RAM/VRAM), I've uploaded 16-bit versions of tuned models to HF Hub: https://huggingface.co/vvsotnikov/stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b-16bit https://huggingface.co/vvsotnikov/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b-16bit

[cduk]

For the sake of convenience (2x less download size/RAM/VRAM), I've uploaded 16-bit versions of tuned models to HF Hub: https://huggingface.co/vvsotnikov/stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b-16bit https://huggingface.co/vvsotnikov/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b-16bit

Would you mind showing how you made the conversion? I'm new to this and would like to do the same for the base 7B model. Thanks.

[vvsotnikov]

@cduk it's pretty much straightforward:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, StoppingCriteria, StoppingCriteriaList

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b")
model.half().cuda()
model.save_pretrained('vvsotnikov/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b-16bit')
tokenizer.save_pretrained('vvsotnikov/stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b-16bit')

It will save the model and the tokenizer locally, then you will have to upload them to Hub. Good luck!

[vvsotnikov]

Nvidia T4 (16 GB) runs out of memory when trying to load the fp16 7B model. The 3B model runs smoothly in fp16.

[antheas]

I only have 40GB of RAM. So the default code did not work for me for 7B.

By changing the first lines to this, RAM is limited to 17GB and the model loads in 9:50 min.

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("StabilityAI/stablelm-base-alpha-7b")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "StabilityAI/stablelm-base-alpha-7b",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
)
model = model.to("cuda")

You need to pip install accelerate as well. So make those changes to avoid loading a 32 bit version of the model (34 gb), then the weights separately (another 34 gb). You still download 2x the size, unlike with @vvsotnikov 's images, but my VM has gigabit so I don't mind.

However, then it crashes, because I have a T4 which only has 15.3GB with the following :/:

torch.cuda.OutOfMemoryError: CUDA out of memory. Tried to allocate 592.00 MiB (GPU 0; 14.62 GiB total capacity; 14.33 GiB already allocated; 185.38 MiB free; 14.33 GiB reserved in total by PyTorch) If reserved memory is >> allocated memory try setting max_split_size_mb to avoid fragmentation.  See documentation for Memory Management and PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF

I'm confident that with some messing around it will fit on the T4. It's so close!

For now I will try running with device_map="auto" and report back. https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/v4.28.1/en/model_doc/flan-ul2#running-on-low-resource-devices

[cduk]

@antheas So close! Have you considered quantizing to 8-bit and seeing how well that works? I wonder whether 8bit 7B would out-perform fp16 3B. Both seem like they would fit within 8GB RAM on consumer GPUs.

[antheas]

with device_map=auto I get the following map. The last 4 layers don't fit.

model.hf_device_map =  {'gpt_neox.embed_in': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.0': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.1': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.2': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.3': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.4': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.5': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.6': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.7': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.8': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.9': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.10': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.11': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.12': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.13': 0,
 'gpt_neox.layers.14': 'cpu',
 'gpt_neox.layers.15': 'cpu',
 'gpt_neox.final_layer_norm': 'cpu',
 'embed_out': 'cpu'}

Default inference takes 2m6s first time, 20s second time. Tad too slow for me. Example reply for untuned model:

What's your mood today?
What did you do yesterday? What's your dream today?
I dreamt I was taking a walk with my family in a quiet neighborhood. When bedtime came, I'd say I was unhappily married and had no kids. It somehow seemed the perfect dream, the ideal marriage. We walked to my

Loading took 18m, but I don't have access to direct SSD storage, so your mileage may vary.

With device_map=auto , each partition is loaded and transferred to the GPU sequentially, so RAM use is around 10GB.

@cduk will try now.

[antheas]

So I came up with the following, to use 8 bit quantization @cduk:

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, BitsAndBytesConfig, StoppingCriteria, StoppingCriteriaList

quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
    load_in_8bit=True,
    llm_int8_threshold=6.0,
)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("StabilityAI/stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "StabilityAI/stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    load_in_8bit=True,
    quantization_config=quantization_config,
    device_map={'': 0}
)

Loading takes around 13GB of RAM peak. I record the VRAM before running a prompt.

Then I run the default script prompt and record the time and VRAM. Then I keep rerunning the script prompt and I record the run times. These results are on a T4. I will play with llm_int8_threshold to see if there are other savings possible. Again, no direct SSD storage = slow load times.

Running with 10.0 now, will update this table with results as they become available.

This table is for the Nvidia T4 16GB (15.3 GiB avail.) card.

Threshhold	Initial VRAM	After first Prompt	Loading	First Prompt	Next ones
4	9619MiB	10041 MiB	10-13m	2m21s	2-5s
6	9618MiB	10031 MiB	10-13m	43.8s	3-6s
10	9619MiB	10029 MiB	10-13m	2m39s	3-6s

Threshhold has negligible effect on RAM. However, with 4 prompts run a bit faster (?)

[vvsotnikov]

However, with 4 prompts run a bit faster (?)

Isn't this expected? The lower the threshold, the more weights are converted to int8 (hence less compute to do).

[antheas]

However, with 4 prompts run a bit faster (?)

Isn't this expected? The lower the threshold, the more weights are converted to int8 (hence less compute to do).

The way I read it it's the opposite. According to its description, values follow a normal distribution, with most being less than [-3.5, 3.5]. llm_int8_threshold is the bound at which if a value is lower, it is converted to int8. This is because higher values are associated with outliers and can destabilize the model.

Might be wrong though.

Built myself a little chat bot with ipywidget. I'm playing a bit with the model now, it's quite fun.

By adding streamer=TextStreamer(tokenizer=tokenizer, skip_prompt=True) to model.generate(), responses are streamed.

[vvsotnikov]

Ah, yes, sure, my mistake. Quite weird then :)

[astrobleem]

I was able to get 3B parameter to work on CPU with 16GB of ram.

[enricoros]

I was able to get 3B parameter to work on CPU with 16GB of ram.

Did you use any tricks such as the dtype or similar?

[astrobleem]

I had to disable torch.backends.cudnn and convert to float.

check out my repo https://github.com/astrobleem/Simple-StableLM-Chat

    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)
    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)
    model.float().to(device)
    torch.backends.cudnn.enabled = False

[astrobleem]

[chromato99]

I am using Radeon 6900xt (16GB VRAM) and quick start code on README works well! (Using stabilityai/stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b)

I used rocm/pytorch docker with rocm5.4.2_ubuntu20.04_py3.8_pytorch_2.0.0_preview version.

https://hub.docker.com/r/rocm/pytorch

EDIT: I tested it a little more and it seems that 16GB of memory is not enough. When I set max_new_token to 1024, I was able to confirm the OutOfMemory error. It seems difficult to use the 7b model with 16GB of VRAM.

[Ph0rk0z]

Works on P6000 24gb.. up to 3000 context before it OOM.

[lingster]

I can confirm Tuned-7B works on my A6000 Ada / 48Gb GPU :)

[RaghavMajorBoost]

Have any of you run into this error when you have the model running? I've attempted method where the model is quantized to an 8-bit version but it seems to cause this problem with the probability tensor/tokens.

For those of you who are using the 8-bit version of StableLM how did you get the ChatBot up and running?

[adamkdean]

RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB VRAM) Tuned-3B ✅ RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB VRAM) Tuned-7B 🚫 (CUDA OOM)

[qJake]

RTX 3070 (8GB VRAM) Tuned-3B (fp16) ✅ RTX 3070 (8GB VRAM) Tuned-3B (fp32) 🚫 RTX 3070 (8GB VRAM) Tuned-7B (fp16) 🚫 RTX 3070 (8GB VRAM) Tuned-7B (fp32) 🚫

[nekhbet]

RTX 3060 (12GB VRAM) Tuned-3B (fp16) OK

[behelit2]

stablelm-tuned-alpha-3b (fp16) works on a Tesla K80. I load it on GPU2 because it runs cooler.

[swallowave]

7900XTX 24GB is OK with tuned-7B, based on docker-based ROCm5.5-rc5 and PyTorch2.0

[XxSamaxX]

Have any of you run into this error when you have the model running? I've attempted method where the model is quantized to an 8-bit version but it seems to cause this problem with the probability tensor/tokens.

For those of you who are using the 8-bit version of StableLM how did you get the ChatBot up and running?

I had the same error, I discovered checking around that there is a parameter that you can add to the generate() function called remove_invalid_values, if you put it in True it should work :) I leave here the parameters that I put:

tokens = model.generate( **inputs, max_new_tokens=64, temperature=0.7, do_sample=True, stopping_criteria=StoppingCriteriaList([StopOnTokens()]), remove_invalid_values=True )

PD: RTX 3080 (12GB VRAM) Tuned-7B (fp16) OK