---
library_name: transformers
tags:
- torchao
- phi
- phi4
- nlp
- code
- math
- chat
- conversational
license: mit
language:
- multilingual
base_model:
- microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

[Phi4-mini](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct) model quantized with [torchao](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/quantization/torchao) float8 dynamic activation and float8 weight quantization (per row granularity), by PyTorch team.

# Installation
```
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
pip install --pre torchao --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu126
pip install vllm --pre --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightly
```
Also need to install lm-eval from source: https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness#install


# Quantization Recipe

We used following code to get the quantized model:

```
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TorchAoConfig

model_id = "microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct"

from torchao.quantization import Float8DynamicActivationFloat8WeightConfig, PerRow
quant_config = Float8DynamicActivationFloat8WeightConfig(granularity=PerRow())
quantization_config = TorchAoConfig(quant_type=quant_config)
quantized_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, device_map="auto", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, quantization_config=quantization_config)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

# Push to hub
USER_ID = "YOUR_USER_ID"
MODEL_NAME = model_id.split("/")[-1]
save_to = f"{USER_ID}/{MODEL_NAME}-float8dq"
quantized_model.push_to_hub(save_to, safe_serialization=False)
tokenizer.push_to_hub(save_to)

# Manual Testing
prompt = "Hey, are you conscious? Can you talk to me?"
messages = [
    {
        "role": "system",
        "content": "",
    },
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt},
]
templated_prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
)
print("Prompt:", prompt)
print("Templated prompt:", templated_prompt)
inputs = tokenizer(
    templated_prompt,
    return_tensors="pt",
).to("cuda")
generated_ids = quantized_model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128)
output_text = tokenizer.batch_decode(
    generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False
)
print("Response:", output_text[0][len(prompt):])

# Local Benchmark
import torch.utils.benchmark as benchmark
from torchao.utils import benchmark_model
import torchao

def benchmark_fn(f, *args, **kwargs):
    # Manual warmup
    for _ in range(2):
        f(*args, **kwargs)

    t0 = benchmark.Timer(
        stmt="f(*args, **kwargs)",
        globals={"args": args, "kwargs": kwargs, "f": f},
        num_threads=torch.get_num_threads(),
    )
    return f"{(t0.blocked_autorange().mean):.3f}"

torchao.quantization.utils.recommended_inductor_config_setter()
quantized_model = torch.compile(quantized_model, mode="max-autotune")
print(f"{save_to} model:", benchmark_fn(quantized_model.generate, **inputs, max_new_tokens=128))
```
# Model Quality
We rely on [lm-evaluation-harness](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness) to evaluate the quality of the quantized model.

## Installing the nightly version to get most recent updates
```
pip install git+https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness
```

## baseline
```
lm_eval --model hf --model_args pretrained=microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct --tasks hellaswag --device cuda:0 --batch_size 8
```

## float8dq
```
lm_eval --model hf --model_args pretrained=pytorch/Phi-4-mini-instruct-float8dq --tasks hellaswag --device cuda:0 --batch_size 8
```

`TODO: more complete eval results`


| Benchmark                        |             |                   |
|----------------------------------|-------------|-------------------|
|                                  | Phi-4 mini-Ins | phi4-mini-float8dq | 
| **Popular aggregated benchmark** |             |                   |
| **Reasoning**                    |             |                   |
| HellaSwag                        | 54.57       | 54.55             |
| **Multilingual**                 |             |                   |
| **Math**                         |             |                   |
| **Overall**                      | **TODO**    | **TODO**          |
 
# Model Performance

## Results (H100 machine)
| Benchmark                        |                |                          |
|----------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------|
|                                  | Phi-4 mini-Ins | phi4-mini-float8dq       | 
| latency (batch_size=1)           | 1.64s         | 1.41s (16% speedup)      |
| latency (batch_size=128)         | 3.1s          | 2.72s (14% speedup)      |
| serving (num_prompts=1)          | 1.35 req/s     | 1.57 req/s (16% speedup) |
| serving (num_prompts=1000)       | 66.68 req/s    | 80.53 req/s (21% speedup)|

Note the result of latency (benchmark_latency) is in seconds, and serving (benchmark_serving) is in number of requests per second.

## Download vllm source code and install vllm
```
git clone git@github.com:vllm-project/vllm.git
VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED=1 pip install .
```

## Download dataset
Download sharegpt dataset: `wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/anon8231489123/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered/resolve/main/ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json`

Other datasets can be found in: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/tree/main/benchmarks
## benchmark_latency

Run the following under `vllm` source code root folder:

### baseline
```
python benchmarks/benchmark_latency.py --input-len 256 --output-len 256 --model microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct --batch-size 1
```

### float8dq
```
python benchmarks/benchmark_latency.py --input-len 256 --output-len 256 --model pytorch/Phi-4-mini-instruct-float8dq --batch-size 1
```

## benchmark_serving

We also benchmarked the throughput in a serving environment.

Run the following under `vllm` source code root folder:

### baseline
Server:
```
vllm serve microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct --tokenizer microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct -O3
```

Client:
```
python benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py --backend vllm --dataset-name sharegpt --tokenizer microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct --dataset-path ./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json --model microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct --num-prompts 1
```

### float8dq
Server:
```
vllm serve pytorch/Phi-4-mini-instruct-float8dq --tokenizer microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct -O3
```

Client:
```
python benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py --backend vllm --dataset-name sharegpt --tokenizer microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct --dataset-path ./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json --model jerryzh168/phi4-mini-float8dq --num-prompts 1
```

# Serving with vllm
We can use the same command we used in serving benchmarks to serve the model with vllm
```
vllm serve pytorch/Phi-4-mini-instruct-float8dq --tokenizer microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct -O3
```