Model reference · open weights
Aria-sequential_mlp is an open-weight language model from rhymes-ai. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Maker | rhymes-ai |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Vision + text |
| Parameters (lead) | 25.3B |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2024-10-17 |
| Popularity | 24 downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
This is a fork of the rhymes-ai/Aria model. The only modification is replacing grouped GEMM with a sequential MLP. In this configuration, each expert is implemented as a torch.nn.Linear layer executed in sequence. This adjustment simplifies quantization with current open-source libraries, which are optimized for nn.Linear layers.
While the sequential MLP approach aids in easier quantization, using grouped GEMM provides the advantage of faster training speed.
pip install transformers==4.45.0 accelerate==0.34.1 sentencepiece==0.2.0 torchvision requests torch Pillow
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
import requests
import torch
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoProcessor
model_id_or_path = "rhymes-ai/Aria-sequential_mlp"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id_or_path, device_map="auto", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, trust_remote_code=True)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id_or_path, trust_remote_code=True)
image_path = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/cat.png"
image = Image.open(requests.get(image_path, stream=True).raw)
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"text": None, "type": "image"},
{"text": "what is the image?", "type": "text"},
],
}
]
text = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = processor(text=text, images=image, return_tensors="pt")
inputs["pixel_values"] = inputs["pixel_values"].to(model.dtype)
inputs = {k: v.to(model.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
with torch.inference_mode(), torch.cuda.amp.autocast(dtype=torch.bfloat16):
output = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=500,
stop_strings=[""],
tokenizer=processor.tokenizer,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.9,
)
output_ids = output[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:]
result = processor.decode(output_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
print(result)
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Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys aria-sequential-mlp for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (aria-sequential-mlp below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"aria-sequential-mlp","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.