Model reference · open weights
snowflake-arctic is an open-weight language model from Snowflake. 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 | Snowflake |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Text gen |
| Parameters (lead) | 478.6B |
| Context | 4k tokens |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2024-04-21 |
| Popularity | 6k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
Arctic is a dense-MoE Hybrid transformer architecture pre-trained from scratch by the Snowflake AI Research Team. We are releasing model checkpoints for both the base and instruct-tuned versions of Arctic under an Apache-2.0 license. This means you can use them freely in your own research, prototypes, and products. Please see our blog Snowflake Arctic: The Best LLM for Enterprise AI — Efficiently Intelligent, Truly Open for more information on Arctic and links to other relevant resources such as our series of cookbooks covering topics around training your own custom MoE models, how to produce high-quality training data, and much more.
For the latest details about Snowflake Arctic including tutorials, etc., please refer to our GitHub repo:
Try a live demo with our Streamlit app.
Model developers Snowflake AI Research Team
License Apache-2.0
Input Models input text only.
Output Models generate text and code only.
Model Release Date April, 24th 2024.
Arctic combines a 10B dense transformer model with a residual 128x3.66B MoE MLP resulting in 480B total and 17B active parameters chosen using a top-2 gating. For more details about Arctic's model Architecture, training process, data, etc. see our series of cookbooks.
Arctic is currently supported with transformers by leveraging the
custom code feature,
to use this you simply need to add trust_remote_code=True to your AutoTokenizer and AutoModelForCausalLM calls.
However, we recommend that you use a transformers version at or above 4.39:
pip install transformers>=4.39.0
Arctic leverages several features from DeepSpeed, you will need to install the DeepSpeed 0.14.2 or higher to get all of these required features:
pip install deepspeed>=0.14.2
Due to the model size we recommend using a single 8xH100 instance from your favorite cloud provider such as: AWS p5.48xlarge, Azure ND96isr_H100_v5, etc.
In this example we are using FP8 quantization provided by DeepSpeed in the backend, we can also use FP6
quantization by specifying q_bits=6 in the QuantizationConfig config. The "150GiB" setting
for max_memory is required until we can get DeepSpeed's FP quantization supported natively as a
HFQuantizer which we
are actively working on.
import os
# enable hf_transfer for faster ckpt download
os.environ["HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER"] = "1"
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from deepspeed.linear.config import QuantizationConfig
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
"Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct",
trust_remote_code=True
)
quant_config = QuantizationConfig(q_bits=8)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct",
trust_remote_code=True,
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
device_map="auto",
ds_quantization_config=quant_config,
max_memory={i: "150GiB" for i in range(8)},
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
content = "5x + 35 = 7x - 60 + 10. Solve for x"
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": content}]
input_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
outputs = model.generate(input_ids=input_ids, max_new_tokens=256)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))
The Arctic GitHub page has additional code snippets and examples around running inference:
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys snowflake-arctic for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (snowflake-arctic 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":"snowflake-arctic","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.