# Mistral ## Overview Mistral-7B-v0.1 is Mistral AI’s first Large Language Model (LLM). ## Model Details Mistral-7B-v0.1 is a decoder-based LM with the following architectural choices: * 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. We also provide an instruction fine-tuned model: `Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1` which can be used for chat-based inference. For more details please read our [release blog post](https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/) ## License Both `Mistral-7B-v0.1` and `Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1` are released under the Apache 2.0 license. ## Usage `Mistral-7B-v0.1` and `Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1` 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/Mistral-7B-v0.1") >>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-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" ``` Raw weights for `Mistral-7B-v0.1` and `Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1` can be downloaded from: | Model Name | Checkpoint | |----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | `Mistral-7B-v0.1` | [Raw Checkpoint](https://files.mistral-7b-v0-1.mistral.ai/mistral-7B-v0.1.tar) | | `Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1` | [Raw Checkpoint](https://files.mistral-7b-v0-1.mistral.ai/mistral-7B-instruct-v0.1.tar) | To use these raw checkpoints with HuggingFace you can use the `convert_mistral_weights_to_hf.py` script to convert them to the HuggingFace format: ```bash python src/transformers/models/mistral/convert_mistral_weights_to_hf.py \ --input_dir /path/to/downloaded/mistral/weights --model_size 7B --output_dir /output/path ``` You can then load the converted model from the `output/path`: ```python from transformers import MistralForCausalLM, LlamaTokenizer tokenizer = LlamaTokenizer.from_pretrained("/output/path") model = MistralForCausalLM.from_pretrained("/output/path") ``` ## Combining Mistral 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/Mistral-7B-v0.1", torch_dtype=torch.float16, use_flash_attention_2=True) >>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-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/Mistral-7B-v0.1` checkpoint and the Flash Attention 2 version of the model.