Pruning LLMs by Weights and Activations

Official PyTorch implementation of Wanda (Pruning by Weights and activations), as presented in our paper:

A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models.
Mingjie Sun*, Zhuang Liu*, Anna Bair, J. Zico Kolter (* indicates equal contribution)
Carnegie Mellon University, Meta AI and Bosch Center for AI

Compared to magnitude pruning which removes weights solely based on their magnitudes, our pruning approach Wanda removes weights on a per-output basis, by the product of weight magnitudes and input activation norms.

Setup

Installation instructions can be found in INSTALL.md.

Usage

The scripts directory contains all the bash commands to replicate the main results (Table 2) in our paper.

Below is an example command for pruning LLaMA-7B with Wanda, to achieve unstructured 50% sparsity.

python main.py \
    --model decapoda-research/llama-7b-hf \
    --prune_method wanda \
    --sparsity_ratio 0.5 \
    --sparsity_type unstructured \
    --save out/llama_7b/unstructured/wanda/ 

We provide a quick overview of the arguments:

• --model: The identifier for the LLaMA model on the Hugging Face model hub.
• --cache_dir: Directory for loading or storing LLM weights. The default is llm_weights.
• --prune_method: We have implemented three pruning methods, namely [magnitude, wanda, sparsegpt].
• --sparsity_ratio: Denotes the percentage of weights to be pruned.
• --sparsity_type: Specifies the type of sparsity [unstructured, 2:4, 4:8].
• --use_variant: Whether to use the Wanda variant, default is False.
• --save: Specifies the directory where the result will be stored.

For structured N:M sparsity, set the argument --sparsity_type to "2:4" or "4:8". An illustrative command is provided below:

python main.py \
    --model decapoda-research/llama-7b-hf \
    --prune_method wanda \
    --sparsity_ratio 0.5 \
    --sparsity_type 2:4 \
    --save out/llama_7b/2-4/wanda/ 

For pruning image classifiers, see directory image_classifiers for details.

Acknowledgement

This repository is build upon the SparseGPT repository.

License

This project is released under the MIT license. Please see the LICENSE file for more information.

Questions

Feel free to discuss papers/code with us through issues/emails!

mingjies at cs.cmu.edu
liuzhuangthu at gmail.com

Citation

If you found this work useful, please consider citing:

@article{sun2023simple,
  title={A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models}, 
  author={Sun, Mingjie and Liu, Zhuang and Bair, Anna and Kolter, Zico},
  year={2023},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11695}
}