DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-FP8-dynamic
Model Overview
- Model Architecture: LlamaForCausalLM
- Input: Text
- Output: Text
- Model Optimizations:
- Weight quantization: FP8
- Activation quantization: FP8
- Release Date: 2/1/2025
- Version: 1.0
- Model Developers: Neural Magic
Quantized version of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B.
Model Optimizations
This model was obtained by quantizing the weights and activations of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 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. Weights are quantized using a symmetric per-channel scheme, whereas quantizations are quantized using a symmetric per-token scheme. LLM Compressor is used for quantization.
Use with vLLM
This model can be deployed efficiently using the vLLM backend, as shown in the example below.
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
number_gpus = 2
model_name = "neuralmagic/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-FP8-dynamic"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, max_tokens=256, stop_token_ids=[tokenizer.eos_token_id])
llm = LLM(model=model_name, tensor_parallel_size=number_gpus, trust_remote_code=True)
messages_list = [
[{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you? Please respond in pirate speak!"}],
]
prompt_token_ids = [tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True) for messages in messages_list]
outputs = llm.generate(prompt_token_ids=prompt_token_ids, sampling_params=sampling_params)
generated_text = [output.outputs[0].text for output in outputs]
print(generated_text)
vLLM also supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the documentation for more details.
Creation
This model was created with llm-compressor by running the code snippet below.
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import QuantizationModifier
from llmcompressor.transformers import oneshot
from llmcompressor.transformers.compression.helpers import calculate_offload_device_map
import os
# Load model
model_stub = "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B"
model_name = model_stub.split("/")[-1]
device_map = calculate_offload_device_map(
model_stub,
reserve_for_hessians=True,
num_gpus=2,
torch_dtype="auto",
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_stub,
device_map=device_map,
torch_dtype="auto",
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_stub)
# Configure the quantization algorithm and scheme
recipe = QuantizationModifier(
targets="Linear",
scheme="FP8_DYNAMIC",
ignore=["lm_head"],
)
# Apply quantization
oneshot(
model=model,
recipe=recipe,
)
# Save to disk in compressed-tensors format
save_path = model_name + "-FP8-dynamic
model.save_pretrained(save_path)
tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_path)
print(f"Model and tokenizer saved to: {save_path}")
Evaluation
The model was evaluated on OpenLLM Leaderboard V1 and V2, using the following commands:
OpenLLM Leaderboard V1:
lm_eval \
--model vllm \
--model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-FP8-dynamic",dtype=auto,max_model_len=4096,tensor_parallel_size=2,enable_chunked_prefill=True \
--tasks openllm \
--write_out \
--batch_size auto \
--output_path output_dir \
--show_config
OpenLLM Leaderboard V2:
lm_eval \
--model vllm \
--model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-FP8-dynamic",dtype=auto,max_model_len=4096,tensor_parallel_size=2,enable_chunked_prefill=True \
--apply_chat_template \
--fewshot_as_multiturn \
--tasks leaderboard \
--write_out \
--batch_size auto \
--output_path output_dir \
--show_config
Accuracy
Inference Performance
This model achieves up to 1.4x speedup in single-stream deployment and up to 3.0x speedup in multi-stream asynchronous deployment, depending on hardware and use-case scenario. The following performance benchmarks were conducted with vLLM version 0.7.2, and GuideLLM.
guidellm --model neuralmagic/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-FP8-dynamic --target "http://localhost:8000/v1" --data-type emulated --data "prompt_tokens=<prompt_tokens>,generated_tokens=<generated_tokens>" --max seconds 360 --backend aiohttp_server
Single-stream performance (measured with vLLM version 0.7.2)
**Use case profiles: prompt tokens / generation tokens
**QPD: Queries per dollar, based on on-demand cost at Lambda Labs (observed on 2/18/2025).
Multi-stream asynchronous performance (measured with vLLM version 0.7.2)
**Use case profiles: prompt tokens / generation tokens
**QPS: Queries per second.
**QPD: Queries per dollar, based on on-demand cost at Lambda Labs (observed on 2/18/2025).