vllm/docs/source/features/quantization/auto_awq.md

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# AutoAWQ

:::{warning}
Please note that AWQ support in vLLM is under-optimized at the moment. We would recommend using the unquantized version of the model for better
accuracy and higher throughput. Currently, you can use AWQ as a way to reduce memory footprint. As of now, it is more suitable for low latency
inference with small number of concurrent requests. vLLM's AWQ implementation have lower throughput than unquantized version.
:::

To create a new 4-bit quantized model, you can leverage [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ).
Quantizing reduces the model's precision from FP16 to INT4 which effectively reduces the file size by ~70%.
The main benefits are lower latency and memory usage.

You can quantize your own models by installing AutoAWQ or picking one of the [400+ models on Huggingface](https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending&search=awq).

```console
pip install autoawq
```

After installing AutoAWQ, you are ready to quantize a model. Here is an example of how to quantize `mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2`:

```python
from awq import AutoAWQForCausalLM
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_path = 'mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2'
quant_path = 'mistral-instruct-v0.2-awq'
quant_config = { "zero_point": True, "q_group_size": 128, "w_bit": 4, "version": "GEMM" }

# Load model
model = AutoAWQForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_path, **{"low_cpu_mem_usage": True, "use_cache": False}
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True)

# Quantize
model.quantize(tokenizer, quant_config=quant_config)

# Save quantized model
model.save_quantized(quant_path)
tokenizer.save_pretrained(quant_path)

print(f'Model is quantized and saved at "{quant_path}"')
```

To run an AWQ model with vLLM, you can use [TheBloke/Llama-2-7b-Chat-AWQ](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7b-Chat-AWQ) with the following command:

```console
python examples/offline_inference/llm_engine_example.py --model TheBloke/Llama-2-7b-Chat-AWQ --quantization awq
```

AWQ models are also supported directly through the LLM entrypoint:

```python
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

# Sample prompts.
prompts = [
    "Hello, my name is",
    "The president of the United States is",
    "The capital of France is",
    "The future of AI is",
]
# Create a sampling params object.
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)

# Create an LLM.
llm = LLM(model="TheBloke/Llama-2-7b-Chat-AWQ", quantization="AWQ")
# Generate texts from the prompts. The output is a list of RequestOutput objects
# that contain the prompt, generated text, and other information.
outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
# Print the outputs.
for output in outputs:
    prompt = output.prompt
    generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
    print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
```