pixtral-12b-FP8-Dynamic

Model Overview

• Model Architecture: mgoin/pixtral-12b
  • Input: Vision-Text
  • Output: Text
• Model Optimizations:
  • Weight quantization: FP8
  • Activation quantization: FP8
• Release Date: 2/24/2025
• Version: 1.0
• Model Developers: Neural Magic

Quantized version of mgoin/pixtral-12b.

Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights of mgoin/pixtral-12b to FP8 data type, ready for inference with vLLM >= 0.5.2.

Deployment

Use with vLLM

This model can be deployed efficiently using the vLLM backend, as shown in the example below.

from vllm.assets.image import ImageAsset
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

# prepare model
llm = LLM(
    model="neuralmagic/pixtral-12b-FP8-Dynamic",
    trust_remote_code=True,
    max_model_len=4096,
    max_num_seqs=2,
)

# prepare inputs
question = "What is the content of this image?"
inputs = {
    "prompt": f"<|user|>\n<|image_1|>\n{question}<|end|>\n<|assistant|>\n",
    "multi_modal_data": {
        "image": ImageAsset("cherry_blossom").pil_image.convert("RGB")
    },
}

# generate response
print("========== SAMPLE GENERATION ==============")
outputs = llm.generate(inputs, SamplingParams(temperature=0.2, max_tokens=64))
print(f"PROMPT  : {outputs[0].prompt}")
print(f"RESPONSE: {outputs[0].outputs[0].text}")
print("==========================================")

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 as part a multimodal announcement blog.

import requests
import torch
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoProcessor
from llmcompressor.transformers import oneshot
from llmcompressor.transformers.tracing import TraceableLlavaForConditionalGeneration
from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import QuantizationModifier
import os

# Load model.
model_id = mgoin/pixtral-12b
model = TraceableLlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id, device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto"
)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)

# Recipe
recipe = [
    QuantizationModifier(
        targets="Linear",
        scheme="FP8_DYNAMIC",
        sequential_targets=["MistralDecoderLayer"],
        ignore=["re:.*lm_head", "re:vision_tower.*", "re:multi_modal_projector.*"],
    ),
]

SAVE_DIR=f"{model_id.split('/')[1]}-FP8-Dynamic"

# Perform oneshot
oneshot(
    model=model,
    recipe=recipe,
    trust_remote_code_model=True,
    output_dir=SAVE_DIR
)

Evaluation

The model was evaluated using mistral-evals for vision-related tasks and using lm_evaluation_harness for select text-based benchmarks. The evaluations were conducted using the following commands:

Vision Tasks

• vqav2
• docvqa
• mathvista
• mmmu
• chartqa

vllm serve neuralmagic/pixtral-12b-quantized.w8a8 --tensor_parallel_size 1 --max_model_len 25000 --trust_remote_code --max_num_seqs 8 --gpu_memory_utilization 0.9 --dtype float16 --limit_mm_per_prompt image=7

python -m eval.run eval_vllm \
        --model_name neuralmagic/pixtral-12b-quantized.w4a16 \
        --url http://0.0.0.0:8000 \
        --output_dir ~/tmp
        --eval_name <vision_task_name>

Text-based Tasks

MMLU

lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="neuralmagic/pixtral-12b-quantized.w4a16 ",dtype=auto,add_bos_token=True,max_model_len=4096,tensor_parallel_size=<n>,gpu_memory_utilization=0.8,enable_chunked_prefill=True,trust_remote_code=True \
  --tasks mmlu \
  --num_fewshot 5
  --batch_size auto \
  --output_path output_dir \

HumanEval

Generation

python3 codegen/generate.py \
  --model neuralmagic/pixtral-12b-quantized.w4a16 \
  --bs 16 \
  --temperature 0.2 \
  --n_samples 50 \
  --root "." \
  --dataset humaneval

Sanitization

python3 evalplus/sanitize.py \
  humaneval/neuralmagic/pixtral-12b-quantized.w4a16_vllm_temp_0.2

Evaluation

evalplus.evaluate \
  --dataset humaneval \
  --samples humaneval/neuralmagic/pixtral-12b-quantized.w4a16_vllm_temp_0.2-sanitized

Accuracy

Inference Performance

This model achieves up to 1.80x speedup in single-stream deployment and up to 1.36x 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.

Single-stream performance (measured with vLLM version 0.7.2)

**Use case profiles: Image Size (WxH) / 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: Image Size (WxH) / 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).