• [2023/12/04] Falcon-180B on a single H200 GPU with INT4 AWQ, and 6.7x faster Llama-70B over A100

H200 with INT4 AWQ, runs Falcon-180B on a single GPU.

H200 is now 2.4x faster on Llama-70B with recent improvements to TensorRT-LLM GQA; up to 6.7x faster than A100.

• [2023/11/27] SageMaker LMI now supports TensorRT-LLM - improves throughput by 60%, compared to previous version
• [2023/11/13] H200 achieves nearly 12,000 tok/sec on Llama2-13B
• [2023/10/22] 🚀 RAG on Windows using TensorRT-LLM and LlamaIndex 🦙
• [2023/10/19] Getting Started Guide - Optimizing Inference on Large Language Models with NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, Now Publicly Available
• [2023/10/17] Large Language Models up to 4x Faster on RTX With TensorRT-LLM for Windows

2023/11/27 - Amazon Sagemaker 2023/11/17 - Perplexity ; 2023/10/31 - Phind ; 2023/10/12 - Databricks (MosaicML) ; 2023/10/04 - Perplexity ; 2023/09/27 - CloudFlare;

• TensorRT-LLM Overview
• Installation
• Quick Start
• Support Matrix
  • Devices
  • Precision
  • Key Features
  • Models
• Performance
• Advanced Topics
  • Quantization
  • In-flight Batching
  • Attention
  • Graph Rewriting
  • Benchmark
• Troubleshooting
• Release notes
  • Change Log
  • Known Issues
  • Report Issues

TensorRT-LLM provides users with an easy-to-use Python API to define Large Language Models (LLMs) and build TensorRT engines that contain state-of-the-art optimizations to perform inference efficiently on NVIDIA GPUs. TensorRT-LLM also contains components to create Python and C++ runtimes that execute those TensorRT engines. It also includes a backend for integration with the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server; a production-quality system to serve LLMs. Models built with TensorRT-LLM can be executed on a wide range of configurations going from a single GPU to multiple nodes with multiple GPUs (using Tensor Parallelism and/or Pipeline Parallelism).

The Python API of TensorRT-LLM is architectured to look similar to the PyTorch API. It provides users with a functional module containing functions like einsum, softmax, matmul or view. The layers module bundles useful building blocks to assemble LLMs; like an Attention block, a MLP or the entire Transformer layer. Model-specific components, like GPTAttention or BertAttention, can be found in the models module.

TensorRT-LLM comes with several popular models pre-defined. They can easily be modified and extended to fit custom needs. See below for a list of supported models.

To maximize performance and reduce memory footprint, TensorRT-LLM allows the models to be executed using different quantization modes (see examples/gpt for concrete examples). TensorRT-LLM supports INT4 or INT8 weights (and FP16 activations; a.k.a. INT4/INT8 weight-only) as well as a complete implementation of the SmoothQuant technique.

For a more detailed presentation of the software architecture and the key concepts used in TensorRT-LLM, we recommend you to read the following document.

After installing the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, please run the following commands to install TensorRT-LLM for x86_64 users.

# Obtain and start the basic docker image environment
nvidia-docker run --entrypoint /bin/bash -it nvidia/cuda:12.1.0-devel-ubuntu22.04

# Install dependencies, TensorRT-LLM requires Python 3.10
apt-get update && apt-get -y install python3.10 python3-pip openmpi-bin libopenmpi-dev

# Install the latest preview version (corresponding to the main branch) of TensorRT-LLM.
# If you want to install the stable version (corresponding to the release branch), please
# remove the `--pre` option.
pip3 install tensorrt_llm -U --pre --extra-index-url https://pypi.nvidia.com

# Check installation
python3 -c "import tensorrt_llm; print(tensorrt_llm.__version__)"

For developers who have the best performance requirements, debugging needs, or use the aarch64 architecture, please refer to the instructions for building from source code.

For Windows installation, see Windows.

Please be sure to complete the installation steps before proceeding with the following steps.

To create a TensorRT engine for an existing model, there are 3 steps:

1. Download pre-trained weights,
2. Build a fully-optimized engine of the model,
3. Deploy the engine, in other words, run the fully-optimized model.

The following sections show how to use TensorRT-LLM to run the BLOOM-560m model.

0. In the BLOOM folder

Inside the Docker container, you have to install the requirements:

pip install -r examples/bloom/requirements.txt
git lfs install

1. Download the model weights from HuggingFace

From the BLOOM example folder, you must download the weights of the model.

cd examples/bloom
rm -rf ./bloom/560M
mkdir -p ./bloom/560M && git clone https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom-560m ./bloom/560M

2. Build the engine

# Single GPU on BLOOM 560M
python convert_checkpoint.py --model_dir ./bloom/560M/ \
                --dtype float16 \
                --output_dir ./bloom/560M/trt_ckpt/fp16/1-gpu/
# May need to add trtllm-build to PATH, export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
trtllm-build --checkpoint_dir ./bloom/560M/trt_ckpt/fp16/1-gpu/ \
                --use_gemm_plugin float16 \
                --use_gpt_attention_plugin float16 \
                --output_dir ./bloom/560M/trt_engines/fp16/1-gpu/

See the BLOOM example for more details and options regarding the build.py script.

3. Run

The ../summarize.py script can be used to perform the summarization of articles from the CNN Daily dataset:

python ../summarize.py --test_trt_llm \
                       --hf_model_dir ./bloom/560M/ \
                       --data_type fp16 \
                       --engine_dir ./bloom/560M/trt_engines/fp16/1-gpu/

More details about the script and how to run the BLOOM model can be found in the example folder. Many more models than BLOOM are implemented in TensorRT-LLM. They can be found in the examples directory.

Beyond local execution, you can also use the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server to create a production-ready deployment of your LLM as described in this blog.

TensorRT-LLM optimizes the performance of a range of well-known models on NVIDIA GPUs. The following sections provide a list of supported GPU architectures as well as important features implemented in TensorRT-LLM.

TensorRT-LLM is rigorously tested on the following GPUs:

• H100
• L40S
• A100
• A30
• V100 (experimental)

If a GPU is not listed above, it is important to note that TensorRT-LLM is expected to work on GPUs based on the Volta, Turing, Ampere, Hopper and Ada Lovelace architectures. Certain limitations may, however, apply.

Various numerical precisions are supported in TensorRT-LLM. The support for some of those numerical features require specific architectures:

(1) INT8 SmoothQuant is not supported on SM70 and SM75.
(2) INT4 AWQ and GPTQ are not supported on SM < 80.
(3) INT4 AWQ and GPTQ with FP8 activations require SM >= 89.

In this release of TensorRT-LLM, the support for FP8 and quantized data types (INT8 or INT4) is not implemented for all the models. See the precision document and the examples folder for additional details.

TensorRT-LLM contains examples that implement the following features.

• Multi-head Attention(MHA)
• Multi-query Attention (MQA)
• Group-query Attention(GQA)
• In-flight Batching
• Paged KV Cache for the Attention
• Tensor Parallelism
• Pipeline Parallelism
• INT4/INT8 Weight-Only Quantization (W4A16 & W8A16)
• SmoothQuant
• GPTQ
• AWQ
• FP8
• Greedy-search
• Beam-search
• RoPE

In this release of TensorRT-LLM, some of the features are not enabled for all the models listed in the examples folder.

The list of supported models is:

• Baichuan
• BART
• Bert
• Blip2
• BLOOM
• ChatGLM
• FairSeq NMT
• Falcon
• Flan-T5
• GPT
• GPT-J
• GPT-Nemo
• GPT-NeoX
• InternLM
• LLaMA
• LLaMA-v2
• mBART
• Mistral
• MPT
• mT5
• OPT
• Phi-1.5/Phi-2
• Qwen
• Replit Code
• SantaCoder
• StarCoder
• T5
• Whisper

Note: Encoder-Decoder provides general encoder-decoder functionality that supports many encoder-decoder models such as T5 family, BART family, Whisper family, NMT family, etc. We unroll the exact model names in the list above to let users find specific models easier.

The list of supported multi-modal models is:

• BLIP2 w/ OPT-2.7B
• BLIP2 w/ T5-XL
• LLaVA-v1.5-7B
• Nougat family Nougat-small, Nougat-base

Note: Multi-modal provides general multi-modal functionality that supports many multi-modal architectures such as BLIP family, LLaVA family, etc. We unroll the exact model names in the list above to let users find specific models easier.

Please refer to the performance page for performance numbers. That page contains measured numbers for four variants of popular models (GPT-J, LLAMA-7B, LLAMA-70B, Falcon-180B), measured on the H100, L40S and A100 GPU(s).

This document describes the different quantization methods implemented in TensorRT-LLM and contains a support matrix for the different models.

TensorRT-LLM supports in-flight batching of requests (also known as continuous batching or iteration-level batching). It's a technique that aims at reducing wait times in queues, eliminating the need for padding requests and allowing for higher GPU utilization.

TensorRT-LLM implements several variants of the Attention mechanism that appears in most the Large Language Models. This document summarizes those implementations and how they are optimized in TensorRT-LLM.

TensorRT-LLM uses a declarative approach to define neural networks and contains techniques to optimize the underlying graph. For more details, please refer to doc

TensorRT-LLM provides C++ and Python tools to perform benchmarking. Note, however, that it is recommended to use the C++ version.

• It's recommended to add options –shm-size=1g –ulimit memlock=-1 to the docker or nvidia-docker run command. Otherwise you may see NCCL errors when running multiple GPU inferences. See https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/nccl/user-guide/docs/troubleshooting.html#errors for details.

• When building models, memory-related issues such as

[09/23/2023-03:13:00] [TRT] [E] 9: GPTLMHeadModel/layers/0/attention/qkv/PLUGIN_V2_Gemm_0: could not find any supported formats consistent with input/output data types
[09/23/2023-03:13:00] [TRT] [E] 9: [pluginV2Builder.cpp::reportPluginError::24] Error Code 9: Internal Error (GPTLMHeadModel/layers/0/attention/qkv/PLUGIN_V2_Gemm_0: could not find any supported formats consistent with input/output data types)

may happen. One possible solution is to reduce the amount of memory needed by reducing the maximum batch size, input and output lengths. Another option is to enable plugins, for example: --use_gpt_attention_plugin.

• MPI + Slurm

TensorRT-LLM is a MPI-aware package that uses mpi4py. If you are running scripts in a Slurm environment, you might encounter interferences:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
PMI2_Init failed to initialize.  Return code: 14
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The application appears to have been direct launched using "srun",
but OMPI was not built with SLURM's PMI support and therefore cannot
execute. There are several options for building PMI support under
SLURM, depending upon the SLURM version you are using:

  version 16.05 or later: you can use SLURM's PMIx support. This
  requires that you configure and build SLURM --with-pmix.

  Versions earlier than 16.05: you must use either SLURM's PMI-1 or
  PMI-2 support. SLURM builds PMI-1 by default, or you can manually
  install PMI-2. You must then build Open MPI using --with-pmi pointing
  to the SLURM PMI library location.

Please configure as appropriate and try again.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

As a rule of thumb, if you are running TensorRT-LLM interactively on a Slurm node, prefix your commands with mpirun -n 1 to run TensorRT-LLM in a dedicated MPI environment, not the one provided by your Slurm allocation.

For example: mpirun -n 1 python3 examples/gpt/build.py ...

• TensorRT-LLM requires TensorRT 9.2 and 23.10 containers.

• Models
  • BART and mBART support in encoder-decoder models
  • FairSeq Neural Machine Translation (NMT) family
  • Mixtral-8x7B model
    • Support weight loading for HuggingFace Mixtral model
  • OpenAI Whisper
  • Mixture of Experts support
  • MPT - Int4 AWQ / SmoothQuant support
  • Baichuan FP8 quantization support
• Features
  • [Preview] Speculative decoding
  • Add Python binding for GptManager
  • Add a Python class ModelRunnerCpp that wraps C++ gptSession
  • System prompt caching
  • Enable split-k for weight-only cutlass kernels
  • FP8 KV cache support for XQA kernel
  • New Python builder API and trtllm-build command(already applied to blip2 and OPT )
  • Support StoppingCriteria and LogitsProcessor in Python generate API (thanks to the contribution from @zhang-ge-hao)
  • fMHA support for chunked attention and paged kv cache
• Bug fixes
  • Fix tokenizer usage in quantize.py #288, thanks to the contribution from @0xymoro
  • Fix LLaMa with LoRA error #637
  • Fix LLaMA GPTQ failure #580
  • Fix Python binding for InferenceRequest issue #528
  • Fix CodeLlama SQ accuracy issue #453
• Performance
  • MMHA optimization for MQA and GQA
  • LoRA optimization: cutlass grouped gemm
  • Optimize Hopper warp specialized kernels
  • Optimize AllReduce for parallel attention on Falcon and GPT-J
  • Enable split-k for weight-only cutlass kernel when SM>=75
• Documentation
  • Add documentation for new builder workflow

• The hang reported in issue #149 has not been reproduced by the TensorRT-LLM team. If it is caused by a bug in TensorRT-LLM, that bug may be present in that release

You can use GitHub issues to report issues with TensorRT-LLM.