Model reference · open weights
Aria-sequential_mlp is an open-weight language model from rhymes-ai. Aria-sequential_mlp (BF16) weighs 50.6 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is H100 80 GB.
Summary of the rhymes-ai/Aria-sequential_mlp model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | rhymes-ai |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-10-17 |
| Parameters | 25.3B |
| VRAM | 50.6 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … L40S 48 GB 6 smaller cards | — | — | — | |
| A100 80 GB | 10 | 2 | all 64K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 8 | 2 | all 64K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 14 | 3 | all 64K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 20 | 5 | all 64K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 33 | 8 | all 64K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 48 | 12 | all 64K | 176 GB |
| 2× L40S 48 GB tensor parallel | 13 | 3 | all 64K | 44.0 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 13 | 3 | all 64K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 13 | 3 | all 64K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 26 | 6 | all 64K | 31.0 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55.5 GB | 62.6 GB |
| 5 | 64.9 GB | 100 GB |
| 8 | 72.0 GB | 128 GB |
| 16 | 90.8 GB | 203 GB |
| 32 | 128 GB | 354 GB |
| 64 | 203 GB | 654 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
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)
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.