Shortened LLM Model Card

Shortened LLM is a depth-pruned version of large language models for efficient text generation.

• Developed by: Nota AI
• License: Non-commercial license
• Repository: https://github.com/Nota-NetsPresso/shortened-llm
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02834

Compression Method

• After identifying unimportant Transformer blocks, we perform one-shot pruning.
• In retraining pruned models for quality recovery, we leverage continued pretraining (CPT), which involves updating all parameters, on a large-scale pretraining corpus.
• Once CPT is completed, the model in this card is further finetuned with low-rank adaptation (LoRA) on an instruction tuning dataset.

Models from Aggressive Pruning & CPT Retraining (arXiv-v2):

• EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness version 3326c54

Experimental Setup for CPT of Pruned Vicuna-7B

• Dataset: SlimPajama-627B
• Training using 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
  • 5.5B parameters: 37B training tokens (for 6 days)
  • 3.7B parameters: 74B tokens (for 8 days)
  • 2.7B parameters: 150B tokens (for 12 days)
  • 1.5B parameters: 271B tokens (for 11 days)
• AdamW optimizer with (β1, β2)=(0.9, 0.95); a learning rate of 0.0001; a weight decay of 0.1.
• Global batch size: 512 (micro-batch size of 2 × 32 gradient accumulation steps × 8 GPUs).

Zero-shot performance over the course of training for models from Vicuna-7B-v1.3 at different pruning ratios. For each model size, the CPT duration was limited to a two-week period, but additional training could further improve the quality.

Experimental Setup for LoRA Instruction Tuning

• Dataset: Refined Alpaca
• Training using 1 NVIDIA A100 GPU.
  • The retraining costs are low, with the entire process being executed on a single GPU.
  • For example, LoRA retraining of a 20%-pruned model from 7B parameters requires about 2 hours and 22GB VRAM.
• A LoRA rank of 8; AdamW optimizer with a learning rate of 0.0001.
• A batch size of 64 over 2 epochs.

Models from Moderate Pruning & LoRA Retraining (arXiv-v1):

• EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness version 3326c54

License

• All rights related to this repository and the compressed models are reserved by Nota Inc.
• The intended use is strictly limited to research and non-commercial projects.

Acknowledgments

• Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub and Gwangju AICA for generously providing GPU resources.
• LLM-Pruner, which utilizes LM Evaluation Harness, PEFT, and Alpaca-LoRA. Thanks for the pioneering work on structured pruning of LLMs!
• LLaMA, Vicuna, SlimPajama, and Alpaca-Cleaned. Thanks for the open-source LLMs and data!

Citation

@article{kim2024shortened,
  title={Shortened LLaMA: Depth Pruning for Large Language Models with Comparison of Retraining Methods},
  author={Kim, Bo-Kyeong and Kim, Geonmin and Kim, Tae-Ho and Castells, Thibault and Choi, Shinkook and Shin, Junho and Song, Hyoung-Kyu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02834},      
  year={2024},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02834}
}

@article{kim2024mefomo,
  title={Shortened LLaMA: A Simple Depth Pruning for Large Language Models},
  author={Kim, Bo-Kyeong and Kim, Geonmin and Kim, Tae-Ho and Castells, Thibault and Choi, Shinkook and Shin, Junho and Song, Hyoung-Kyu},
  journal={ICLR Workshop on Mathematical and Empirical Understanding of Foundation Models (ME-FoMo)},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=18VGxuOdpu}
}