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The group value matches the weights in the input channel (128 by default).</li></ul> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-10oa2n0">FP8 quantization enables support for <a href="https://hf.co/papers/2412.19437" rel="nofollow">DeepSeek-V3</a> and DeepSeek-R1.</p> <div class="flex justify-center" data-svelte-h="svelte-cd82ay"><img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/b7b3b34bf826a6423ea82ffc57ecac80c46c3c76/transformers/quantization/quantization_deepseek.png"></div> <blockquote class="tip" data-svelte-h="svelte-20otzg"><p>You need a GPU with Compute Capability&gt;=9 (H100), and install a PyTorch version compatible with the CUDA version of your GPU.</p></blockquote> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-1rty8u8">Install Accelerate and upgrade to the latest version of PyTorch.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5   text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg class="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg> <div class="absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0"><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent; "></div> Copied</div></button></div> <pre class=""><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->pip install --upgrade accelerate torch<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-15prlhx">Create a <a href="/docs/transformers/pr_33892/en/main_classes/quantization#transformers.FineGrainedFP8Config">FineGrainedFP8Config</a> class and pass it to <a href="/docs/transformers/pr_33892/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained">from_pretrained()</a> to quantize it. The weights are loaded in full precision (<code>torch.float32</code>) by default regardless of the actual data type the weights are stored in. Set <code>dtype=&quot;auto&quot;</code> to load the weights in the data type defined in a models <code>config.json</code> file to automatically load the most memory-optiomal data type.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5   text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg class="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg> <div class="absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0"><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent; "></div> Copied</div></button></div> <pre class=""><!-- HTML_TAG_START --><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> FineGrainedFP8Config, AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = <span class="hljs-string">&quot;meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B&quot;</span>
quantization_config = FineGrainedFP8Config()
quantized_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, dtype=<span class="hljs-string">&quot;auto&quot;</span>, device_map=<span class="hljs-string">&quot;auto&quot;</span>, quantization_config=quantization_config)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
input_text = <span class="hljs-string">&quot;What are we having for dinner?&quot;</span>
input_ids = tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors=<span class="hljs-string">&quot;pt&quot;</span>).to(quantized_model.device.<span class="hljs-built_in">type</span>)

output = quantized_model.generate(**input_ids, max_new_tokens=<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)
<span class="hljs-built_in">print</span>(tokenizer.decode(output[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>], skip_special_tokens=<span class="hljs-literal">True</span>))<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-1x6bm5">Use <a href="/docs/transformers/pr_33892/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.save_pretrained">save_pretrained()</a> to save the quantized model and reload it with <a href="/docs/transformers/pr_33892/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained">from_pretrained()</a>.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5   text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg class="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg> <div class="absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0"><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent; "></div> Copied</div></button></div> <pre class=""><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->quant_path = <span class="hljs-string">&quot;/path/to/save/quantized/model&quot;</span>
model.save_pretrained(quant_path)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(quant_path, device_map=<span class="hljs-string">&quot;auto&quot;</span>)<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div> <a class="!text-gray-400 !no-underline text-sm flex items-center not-prose mt-4" href="https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/docs/source/en/quantization/finegrained_fp8.md" target="_blank"><svg class="mr-1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M31,16l-7,7l-1.41-1.41L28.17,16l-5.58-5.59L24,9l7,7z"></path><path d="M1,16l7-7l1.41,1.41L3.83,16l5.58,5.59L8,23l-7-7z"></path><path d="M12.419,25.484L17.639,6.552l1.932,0.518L14.351,26.002z"></path></svg> <span data-svelte-h="svelte-zjs2n5"><span class="underline">Update</span> on GitHub</span></a>  <p></p> 
			
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