/ggml

Tensor library for machine learning

Primary LanguageC++MIT LicenseMIT

ggml

Roadmap / Manifesto

Tensor library for machine learning

Note that this project is under active development.
Some of the development is currently happening in the llama.cpp and whisper.cpp repos

Features

  • Written in C
  • 16-bit float support
  • Integer quantization support (4-bit, 5-bit, 8-bit, etc.)
  • Automatic differentiation
  • ADAM and L-BFGS optimizers
  • Optimized for Apple Silicon
  • On x86 architectures utilizes AVX / AVX2 intrinsics
  • On ppc64 architectures utilizes VSX intrinsics
  • No third-party dependencies
  • Zero memory allocations during runtime

Updates

Python environment setup and building the examples

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml
cd ggml
# Install python dependencies in a virtual environment
python3.10 -m venv ggml_env
source ./ggml_env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Build the examples
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release -j 8

GPT inference (example)

With ggml you can efficiently run GPT-2 and GPT-J inference on the CPU.

Here is how to run the example programs:

# Run the GPT-2 small 117M model
../examples/gpt-2/download-ggml-model.sh 117M
./bin/gpt-2-backend -m models/gpt-2-117M/ggml-model.bin -p "This is an example"

# Run the GPT-J 6B model (requires 12GB disk space and 16GB CPU RAM)
../examples/gpt-j/download-ggml-model.sh 6B
./bin/gpt-j -m models/gpt-j-6B/ggml-model.bin -p "This is an example"

# Run the Cerebras-GPT 111M model
# Download from: https://huggingface.co/cerebras
python3 ../examples/gpt-2/convert-cerebras-to-ggml.py /path/to/Cerebras-GPT-111M/
./bin/gpt-2 -m /path/to/Cerebras-GPT-111M/ggml-model-f16.bin -p "This is an example"

The inference speeds that I get for the different models on my 32GB MacBook M1 Pro are as follows:

Model Size Time / Token
GPT-2 117M 5 ms
GPT-2 345M 12 ms
GPT-2 774M 23 ms
GPT-2 1558M 42 ms
--- --- ---
GPT-J 6B 125 ms

For more information, checkout the corresponding programs in the examples folder.

Using Metal (only with GPT-2)

For GPT-2 models, offloading to GPU is possible. Note that it will not improve inference performances but will reduce power consumption and free up the CPU for other tasks.

To enable GPU offloading on MacOS:

cmake -DGGML_METAL=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=Off ..

# add -ngl 1
./bin/gpt-2 -t 4 -ngl 100 -m models/gpt-2-117M/ggml-model.bin -p "This is an example"

Using cuBLAS

# fix the path to point to your CUDA compiler
cmake -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DCMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER=/usr/local/cuda-12.1/bin/nvcc ..

Using hipBLAS

cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="$(hipconfig -l)/clang" -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="$(hipconfig -l)/clang++" -DGGML_HIPBLAS=ON

Using SYCL

# linux
source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx -DGGML_SYCL=ON ..

# windows
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\setvars.bat"
cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=cl -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icx -DGGML_SYCL=ON ..

Compiling for Android

Download and unzip the NDK from this download page. Set the NDK_ROOT_PATH environment variable or provide the absolute path to the CMAKE_ANDROID_NDK in the command below.

cmake .. \
   -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Android \
   -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=33 \
   -DCMAKE_ANDROID_ARCH_ABI=arm64-v8a \
   -DCMAKE_ANDROID_NDK=$NDK_ROOT_PATH
   -DCMAKE_ANDROID_STL_TYPE=c++_shared
# Create directories
adb shell 'mkdir /data/local/tmp/bin'
adb shell 'mkdir /data/local/tmp/models'

# Push the compiled binaries to the folder
adb push bin/* /data/local/tmp/bin/

# Push the ggml library
adb push src/libggml.so /data/local/tmp/

# Push model files
adb push models/gpt-2-117M/ggml-model.bin /data/local/tmp/models/


# Now lets do some inference ...
adb shell

# Now we are in shell
cd /data/local/tmp
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/data/local/tmp
./bin/gpt-2-backend -m models/ggml-model.bin -p "this is an example"

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