README.md

TransAct

This repository is the official implementation of the ACL 2024 paper Pruning Large Language Models to Intra-module Low-rank Architecture with Transitional Activations.

Pruning architecture	Latency on Xiaomi 14 mobile phone

Training and Evaluation

1. Prepare environment following transact.dockerfile.
2. Create symlink to your data, models, outputs, and HuggingFace cache (mainly for large datasets).

   ln -s /path/to/data data
   ln -s /path/to/models models
   ln -s /path/to/outputs outputs
   ln -s /path/to/hf-cache hf-cache

3. Tweak training configs train_config.yaml and deepspeed.json.
4. Run the train script run_trainer.sh, for example

   bash run_trainer.sh -m all \
     -a 768 -f 1536 \
     -n 128 -k 8 -p acts \
     -l 4096 -t 50 \
     -g 64 -b 4 \
     -d togethercomputer/RedPajama-Data-1T \
     -x llama -y llama2 -z 7B

   Run bash run_trainer.sh -h for help.
5. Run the evaluation script eval.sh, for example

   bash eval.sh -m all \
     -a 768 -f 1536 \
     -n 128 -k 8 -p acts \
     -l 4096 -t 50 \
     -d togethercomputer/RedPajama-Data-1T \
     -x llama -y llama2 -z 7B

   Run bash eval.sh -h for help.

Citations

Please cite the paper if this repository is useful for you.

@inproceedings{shen-etal-2024-pruning,
    title = "Pruning Large Language Models to Intra-module Low-rank Architecture with Transitional Activations",
    author = "Shen, Bowen  and
      Lin, Zheng  and
      Zha, Daren  and
      Liu, Wei  and
      Luan, Jian  and
      Wang, Bin  and
      Wang, Weiping",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024",
    year = "2024",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.582",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.582",
    pages = "9781--9793",
}