# Mixtral ## Overview Mixtral-8x7B is Mistral AI's second Large Language Model (LLM). The Mixtral model was proposed by the [Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/) team. It was introduced in the [Mixtral of Experts blogpost](https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/) with the following introduction: *Today, the team is proud to release Mixtral 8x7B, a high-quality sparse mixture of experts models (SMoE) with open weights. Licensed under Apache 2.0. Mixtral outperforms Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks with 6x faster inference. It is the strongest open-weight model with a permissive license and the best model overall regarding cost/performance trade-offs. In particular, it matches or outperforms GPT3.5 on most standard benchmarks.* Tips: - The model needs to be converted using the [conversion script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/models/mixtral/convert_mixtral_weights_to_hf.py). - If the model is quantized to 4bits, a single A100 is enough to fit the entire 45B model. This model was contributed by [Younes Belkada](https://huggingface.co/ybelkada) and [Arthur Zucker](https://huggingface.co/ArthurZ) . The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-src). ### Model Details Mixtral-45B is a decoder-based LM with the following architectural choices: * Mixtral is a Mixture of Expert (MOE) model with 8 experts per MLP, with a total of 45B paramateres but the compute required is the same as a 14B model. This is because even though each experts have to be loaded in RAM (70B like ram requirement) each token from the hidden states are dispatched twice (top 2 routing) and thus the compute (the operation required at each forward computation) is just 2 X sequence_length. The following implementation details are shared with Mistral AI's first model [mistral](mistral): * Sliding Window Attention - Trained with 8k context length and fixed cache size, with a theoretical attention span of 128K tokens * GQA (Grouped Query Attention) - allowing faster inference and lower cache size. * Byte-fallback BPE tokenizer - ensures that characters are never mapped to out of vocabulary tokens. They also provide an instruction fine-tuned model: `mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1` which can be used for chat-based inference. For more details please read our [release blog post](https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/) ### License `Mixtral-8x7B` is released under the Apache 2.0 license. ## Usage tips `Mixtral-8x7B` can be found on the [Huggingface Hub](https://huggingface.co/mistralai) These ready-to-use checkpoints can be downloaded and used via the HuggingFace Hub: ```python >>> from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer >>> device = "cuda" # the device to load the model onto >>> model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1") >>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1") >>> prompt = "My favourite condiment is" >>> model_inputs = tokenizer([prompt], return_tensors="pt").to(device) >>> model.to(device) >>> generated_ids = model.generate(**model_inputs, max_new_tokens=100, do_sample=True) >>> tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids)[0] "The expected output" ``` To use the raw checkpoints with HuggingFace you can use the `convert_mixtral_weights_to_hf.py` script to convert them to the HuggingFace format: ```bash python src/transformers/models/mixtral/convert_mixtral_weights_to_hf.py \ --input_dir /path/to/downloaded/mistral/weights --output_dir /output/path ``` You can then load the converted model from the `output/path`: ```python from transformers import MixtralForCausalLM, LlamaTokenizer tokenizer = LlamaTokenizer.from_pretrained("/output/path") model = MixtralForCausalLM.from_pretrained("/output/path") ``` ## Combining Mixtral and Flash Attention 2 First, make sure to install the latest version of Flash Attention 2 to include the sliding window attention feature. ```bash pip install -U flash-attn --no-build-isolation ``` Make also sure that you have a hardware that is compatible with Flash-Attention 2. Read more about it in the official documentation of [`flash-attn`](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention) repository. Make also sure to load your model in half-precision (e.g. `torch.float16`) To load and run a model using Flash Attention 2, refer to the snippet below: ```python >>> import torch >>> from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer >>> device = "cuda" # the device to load the model onto >>> model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1", torch_dtype=torch.float16, attn_implementation="flash_attention_2") >>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1") >>> prompt = "My favourite condiment is" >>> model_inputs = tokenizer([prompt], return_tensors="pt").to(device) >>> model.to(device) >>> generated_ids = model.generate(**model_inputs, max_new_tokens=100, do_sample=True) >>> tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids)[0] "The expected output" ``` ### Expected speedups Below is a expected speedup diagram that compares pure inference time between the native implementation in transformers using `mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1` checkpoint and the Flash Attention 2 version of the model.
### Sliding window Attention The current implementation supports the sliding window attention mechanism and memory efficient cache management. To enable sliding window attention, just make sure to have a `flash-attn` version that is compatible with sliding window attention (`>=2.3.0`). The Flash Attention-2 model uses also a more memory efficient cache slicing mechanism - as recommended per the official implementation of Mistral model that use rolling cache mechanism we keep the cache size fixed (`self.config.sliding_window`), support batched generation only for `padding_side="left"` and use the absolute position of the current token to compute the positional embedding. ## The Mistral Team Albert Jiang, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Arthur Mensch, Chris Bamford, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Diego de las Casas, Florian Bressand, Gianna Lengyel, Guillaume Lample, Lélio Renard Lavaud, Lucile Saulnier, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Pierre Stock, Teven Le Scao, Thibaut Lavril, Thomas Wang, Timothée Lacroix, William El Sayed. ## MixtralConfig [[autodoc]] MixtralConfig ## MixtralModel [[autodoc]] MixtralModel - forward ## MixtralForCausalLM [[autodoc]] MixtralForCausalLM - forward ## MixtralForSequenceClassification [[autodoc]] MixtralForSequenceClassification - forward