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CPU OOM when inferencing Llama3-70B-Chinese-Chat

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, pytorch

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Start by running the command from the issue against inference-test.py with the stated model, dtype, batch size, GPUs, and hardware, then inspect how the example loads the model. Compare its CPU memory use with the Transformers from_pretrained approach described in the report; done means the 70B model can load without exhausting 250GB of CPU memory.

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Description

Code: text-generation demo
Command:
deepspeed --num_gpus 2 inference-test.py --dtype float16 --batch_size 4 --max_new_tokens 200 --model ../Llama3-70B-Chinese-Chat
Hardware: two A100 80GB GPUs, CPU 250GB
Problem: When using Deepspeed to load the float16 model, it consumes too much CPU memory, and 250GB of memory cannot load the 70B model. When I use the built-in model of Transformers for inference, Model=AutoModelForCausalLM. from_pretrained (model_id, torch dtype=torch. float16, device_map="auto"), can perform inference without occupying CPU memory.
How to reduce CPU memory usage?

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