Support eetq weight only quantization (#1068)

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Cargo.lock

@@ -2896,18 +2896,18 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror"
-version = "1.0.48"
+version = "1.0.49"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9d6d7a740b8a666a7e828dd00da9c0dc290dff53154ea77ac109281de90589b7"
+checksum = "1177e8c6d7ede7afde3585fd2513e611227efd6481bd78d2e82ba1ce16557ed4"
 dependencies = [
  "thiserror-impl",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror-impl"
-version = "1.0.48"
+version = "1.0.49"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "49922ecae66cc8a249b77e68d1d0623c1b2c514f0060c27cdc68bd62a1219d35"
+checksum = "10712f02019e9288794769fba95cd6847df9874d49d871d062172f9dd41bc4cc"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",

launcher/src/main.rs

@@ -21,11 +21,32 @@ mod env_runtime;
 
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, ValueEnum)]
 enum Quantization {
-    Bitsandbytes,
+    /// 4 bit quantization. Requires a specific GTPQ quantized model:
-    BitsandbytesNF4,
+    ///   https://hf.co/models?search=awq.
-    BitsandbytesFP4,
+    /// Should replace GPTQ models whereever possible because of the better latency
-    Gptq,
     Awq,
+    /// 8 bit quantization, doesn't require specific model.
+    /// Should be a drop-in replacement to bitsandbytes with much better performance.
+    /// Kernels are from https://github.com/NetEase-FuXi/EETQ.git
+    Eetq,
+    /// 4 bit quantization. Requires a specific GTPQ quantized model: https://hf.co/models?search=gptq.
+    /// text-generation-inference will use exllama (faster) kernels whereever possible, and use
+    /// triton kernel (wider support) when it's not.
+    /// AWQ has faster kernels.
+    Gptq,
+    /// Bitsandbytes 8bit. Can be applied on any model, will cut the memory requirement in half,
+    /// but it is known that the model will be much slower to run than the native f16.
+    #[deprecated(
+        since = "1.1.0",
+        note = "Use `eetq` instead, which provides better latencies overall and is drop-in in most cases"
+    )]
+    Bitsandbytes,
+    /// Bitsandbytes 4bit. Can be applied on any model, will cut the memory requirement by 4x,
+    /// but it is known that the model will be much slower to run than the native f16.
+    BitsandbytesNF4,
+    /// Bitsandbytes 4bit. nf4 should be preferred in most cases but maybe this one has better
+    /// perplexity performance for you model
+    BitsandbytesFP4,
 }
 
 impl std::fmt::Display for Quantization {
@@ -47,6 +68,9 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for Quantization {
             Quantization::Awq => {
                 write!(f, "awq")
             }
+            Quantization::Eetq => {
+                write!(f, "eetq")
+            }
         }
     }
 }
@@ -127,9 +151,7 @@ struct Args {
     #[clap(long, env)]
     num_shard: Option<usize>,
 
-    /// Whether you want the model to be quantized. This will use `bitsandbytes` for
+    /// Whether you want the model to be quantized.
-    /// quantization on the fly, or `gptq`. 4bit quantization is available through
-    /// `bitsandbytes` by providing the `bitsandbytes-fp4` or `bitsandbytes-nf4` options.
     #[clap(long, env, value_enum)]
     quantize: Option<Quantization>,
 

server/.gitignore

@@ -160,3 +160,4 @@ flash-attention/
 flash-attention-v2/
 vllm/
 llm-awq/
+eetq/

server/Makefile

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ include Makefile-flash-att
 include Makefile-flash-att-v2
 include Makefile-vllm
 include Makefile-awq
+include Makefile-eetq
 
 unit-tests:
 	pytest -s -vv -m "not private" tests

server/Makefile-eetq

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+eetq_commit := 323827dd471458a84e9c840f614e4592b157a4b1
+
+eetq:
+    # Clone eetq
+	pip install packaging
+	git clone https://github.com/NetEase-FuXi/EETQ.git eetq
+
+build-eetq: eetq
+	cd eetq && git fetch && git checkout $(eetq_commit)
+	cd eetq && python setup.py build
+
+install-eetq: build-eetq
+	cd eetq && python setup.py install

server/text_generation_server/cli.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ class Quantization(str, Enum):
     bitsandbytes_fp4 = "bitsandbytes-fp4"
     gptq = "gptq"
     awq = "awq"
+    eetq = "eetq"
 
 
 class Dtype(str, Enum):

server/text_generation_server/utils/layers.py

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import torch.distributed
 from torch import nn
 from torch.nn import functional as F
 from typing import List
+from loguru import logger
+from functools import lru_cache
 
 HAS_BITS_AND_BYTES = True
 try:
@@ -42,6 +44,13 @@ elif CAN_EXLLAMA:
 
 from typing import Optional
 
+HAS_EETQ = False
+try:
+    from EETQ import quant_weights, w8_a16_gemm
+    HAS_EETQ = True
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
 # Monkey patching
 @classmethod
 def load_layer_norm(cls, prefix, weights, eps):
@@ -120,6 +129,30 @@ class FastLinear(nn.Module):
         return F.linear(input, self.weight, self.bias)
 
 
+class EETQLinear(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        weight,
+        bias,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        device = weight.device
+        weight = torch.t(weight).contiguous().cpu()
+        weight, scale = quant_weights(weight, torch.int8, False)
+        if bias:
+            bias = weights.get_tensor(f"{prefix}.bias")
+        else:
+            bias = None
+        self.weight = weight.cuda(device)
+        self.scale = scale.cuda(device)
+        self.bias = bias.cuda(device) if bias is not None else None
+
+    def forward(self, input: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        output = w8_a16_gemm(input, self.weight, self.scale)
+        output = output + self.bias if self.bias is not None else output
+        return output
+
+
 class Linear8bitLt(nn.Module):
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -211,10 +244,20 @@ class Linear4bit(nn.Module):
         return out
 
 
+@lru_cache(1)
+def warn_deprecate_bnb():
+    logger.warning("Bitsandbytes 8bit is deprecated, using `eetq` is a drop-in replacement, and has much better performnce")
+
 def get_linear(weight, bias, quantize):
     if quantize is None:
         linear = FastLinear(weight, bias)
+    elif quantize == "eetq":
+        if HAS_EETQ:
+            linear = EETQLinear(weight, bias)
+        else:
+            raise ImportError("Please install EETQ from https://github.com/NetEase-FuXi/EETQ")
     elif quantize == "bitsandbytes":
+        warn_deprecate_bnb()
         linear = Linear8bitLt(
             weight,
             bias,
@@ -298,8 +341,8 @@ class TensorParallelHead(SuperLayer):
             weight = weights.get_tensor(f"{prefix}.weight")
             should_gather = False
 
-        # GPTQ and AWQ don't quantize heads (nor embeddings)
+        # GPTQ,AWQ,EETQ don't quantize heads (nor embeddings)
-        if config.quantize in ["gptq", "awq"]:
+        if config.quantize in ["gptq", "awq", "eetq"]:
             quantize = None
         else:
             quantize = config.quantize