README.md

Fast Inference Solutions for BLOOM

This repo provides demos and packages to perform fast inference solutions for BLOOM. Some of the solutions have their own repos in which case a link to the corresponding repos is provided instead.

Some of the solutions provide both half-precision and int8-quantized solution.

Client-side solutions

Solutions developed to perform large batch inference locally:

Pytorch:

• Accelerate, DeepSpeed-Inference and DeepSpeed-ZeRO

• Thomas Wang is working on a Custom Fused Kernel solution - will link once it's ready for a general use.

JAX:

• BLOOM Inference in JAX

Server solutions

Solutions developed to be used in a server mode (i.e. varied batch size, varied request rate):

Pytorch:

• Accelerate and DeepSpeed-Inference based solutions

Rust:

• Bloom-server