Model reference · open weights
Meta-Llama-3.1 is an open-weight language model from meta-llama. 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
| Released by | Meta |
|---|---|
| Published under | meta-llama |
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Text gen |
| Parameters (lead) | 70.6B |
| Context | 128k tokens |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Based on | meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct |
| Released | 2024-07-23 |
| Popularity | 142k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open, with conditions |
About
Quantized version of Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct. It achieves an average score of 84.29 on the OpenLLM benchmark (version 1), whereas the unquantized model achieves 84.40.
This model was obtained by quantizing the weights and activations of Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct to FP8 data type. This optimization reduces the number of bits per parameter from 16 to 8, reducing the disk size and GPU memory requirements by approximately 50%.
Only the weights and activations of the linear operators within transformers blocks are quantized. Symmetric per-tensor quantization is applied, in which a single linear scaling maps the FP8 representations of the quantized weights and activations. LLM Compressor is used for quantization with 512 sequences of UltraChat.
This model can be deployed efficiently using the vLLM backend, as shown in the example below.
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
model_id = "neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-FP8"
number_gpus = 2
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.9, max_tokens=256)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a pirate chatbot who always responds in pirate speak!"},
{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
prompts = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=False)
llm = LLM(model=model_id, tensor_parallel_size=number_gpus)
outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
generated_text = outputs[0].outputs[0].text
print(generated_text)
vLLM aslo supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the documentation for more details.
This model was created by applying LLM Compressor with calibration samples from UltraChat, as presented in the code snipet below.
import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from llmcompressor.transformers import SparseAutoModelForCausalLM, oneshot
from llmcompressor.transformers.compression.helpers import (
calculate_offload_device_map,
custom_offload_device_map,
)
recipe = """
quant_stage:
quant_modifiers:
QuantizationModifier:
ignore: ["lm_head"]
config_groups:
group_0:
weights:
num_bits: 8
type: float
strategy: tensor
dynamic: false
symmetric: true
input_activations:
num_bits: 8
type: float
strategy: tensor
dynamic: false
symmetric: true
targets: ["Linear"]
"""
model_stub = "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct"
model_name = model_stub.split("/")[-1]
device_map = calculate_offload_device_map(
model_stub, reserve_for_hessians=False, num_gpus=2, torch_dtype="auto"
)
model = SparseAutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_stub, torch_dtype="auto", device_map=device_map
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_stub)
output_dir = f"./{model_name}-FP8"
DATASET_ID = "HuggingFaceH4/ultrachat_200k"
DATASET_SPLIT = "train_sft"
NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES = 512
MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH = 4096
ds = load_dataset(DATASET_ID, split=DATASET_SPLIT)
ds = ds.shuffle(seed=42).select(range(NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES))
def preprocess(example):
return {
"text": tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
example["messages"],
tokenize=False,
)
}
ds = ds.map(preprocess)
def tokenize(sample):
return tokenizer(
sample["text"],
padding=False,
max_length=MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH,
truncation=True,
add_special_tokens=False,
)
ds = ds.map(tokenize, remove_columns=ds.column_names)
oneshot(
model=model,
output_dir=output_dir,
dataset=ds,
recipe=recipe,
max_seq_length=MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH,
num_calibration_samples=NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES,
save_compressed=True,
)
The model was evaluated on MMLU, ARC-Challenge, GSM-8K, Hellaswag, Winogrande and TruthfulQA. Evaluation was conducted using the Neural Magic fork of lm-evaluation-harness (branch llama_3.1_instruct) and the vLLM engine. This version of the lm-evaluation-harness includes versions of ARC-Challenge, GSM-8K, MMLU, and MMLU-cot that match the prompting style of Meta-Llama-3.1-Instruct-evals.
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys meta-llama-meta-llama-3-1 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (meta-llama-meta-llama-3-1 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":"meta-llama-meta-llama-3-1","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
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