ggml-quants : ternary packing for TriLMs and BitNet b1.58 (ggml-org#8151)

* ggml-quants : 1.625 bpw ternary packing for BitNet 1.58b

* ggml-quants : faster 1.625 bpw AVX2 vec_dot

Not using a lookup table anymore makes it match q4_0 speed.

* gguf-py : fix formatting

* llama : remove spaces on empty line

* ggml-quants : subtract 1 when back in epi8

This makes the 1.625 bpw type go faster than q4_0. Still not the fastest.

* ggml-quants : Q2_2 now faster than Q4_K on with AVX2

* ggml-quants : cleanup Q1_3 code formatting

* ggml-quants : ARM NEON vec_dot for q2_2 and q1_3

* ggml-quants : use ceiling division when quantizing q1_3

* convert-hf : simplify BitNet pre-quantization

This still results in the exact same tensor weights and scales,
but it reveals some weirdness in the current algorithm.

* convert-hf : allow converting the weird BitNet 1.3B

Its FFN size is 5460 which is not convenient.
The offending tensors are kept in F16,
which makes the final model 5.01 bpw.

* bitnet : replace 1.58b with b1.58, as in the paper

* ggml-quants : fix build failure on Windows

* ggml-quants : attempt to fix Arm 32-bit support

* ggml : add some informative comments in q1_3 vec_dot

* ggml : add TQ1_0 and TQ2_0 ternary quantization types

* ggml : even faster TQ2_0

* ggml : also faster TQ1_0

Same optimization as for TQ2_0 by offsetting the sum instead of the weights.
This makes TQ1_0 almost as fast as Q8_0 on AVX2.

* ggml : fix build issues in certain environments

* ggml : add NEON vec_dot implementation for TQ1_0 and TQ2_0

* ggml : avoid directly using vmlal_high_s8, for 32-bit ARM compat

The compiler seems smart enough to use the same instruction
even when using vget_high_s8 instead.

* ggml : remove q1_3 and q2_2

No more 1.625 bpw and 2.000 bpw,
now instead using 1.6875 bpw and 2.0625 bpw
with TQ1_0 and TQ2_0, respectively.

* llama : remove the separate scale tensors of BitNet b1.58

They won't be needed, since the remaining ternary quant types have
built-in scales.

* ggml-quants : rename fields of TQ1_0 and TQ2_0 structs for consistency

* ggml-quants : allow using vdotq_s32 in TQ2_0 vec_dot

Not yet tested on hardware which supports it,
might not work or might not even compile. But also it might.
It should make the performance better on recent ARM CPUs.

* ggml-quants : remove comment about possible format change of TQ2_0

Making it slightly more convenient for AVX512
but less convenient for everything else is not worth the trouble.

* gguf-py : Numpy (de)quantization for TQ1_0 and TQ2_0

* ggml-quants : use roundf instead of nearest_int for TQ1_0 and TQ2_0

This does not change anything for ternary models,
since their values should never end up being in halfway cases anyway.

* convert : allow direct conversion to TQ1_0 and TQ2_0

The token embeddings and output tensors are kept in F16
to allow quantizing them to Q4_K and Q6_K with llama-quantize.

* llama : handle fallback for TQ1_0 and TQ2_0 with Q4_0

Q4_0 is not completely symmetric (so not lossless for ternary models),
but it should be good enough.

* ggml-quants : allow using ARM dot product instructions for TQ1_0

* ggml-quants : deduplicate TQ1_0 and TQ2_0 __ARM_FEATURE_DOTPROD support

* ggml : remove unused ggml_mul special case

It would otherwise conflict with the more general
optimization coming with Mamba-2.

* ggml : handle TQ1_0 and TQ2_0 in dequantization-based operators

* test-backend-ops : add TQ1_0 and TQ2_0 comments for later

Not yet adding uncommented, because some backends like SYCL and Metal
do not properly handle unknown types in supports_op for GGML_OP_MUL_MAT.
(and Metal also doesn't handle it with GGML_OP_GET_ROWS)
Support for TQ1_0 and TQ2_0 for other backends than CPU
will be added in follow-up pull requests.

Author: compilade

convert_hf_to_gguf.py

@@ -308,6 +308,20 @@ def prepare_tensors(self):
                 ):
                     data_qtype = gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.F32
 
+                if data_qtype is False and any(
+                    self.match_model_tensor_name(new_name, key, bid)
+                    for key in (
+                        gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD,
+                        gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT,
+                    )
+                ):
+                    if self.ftype in (
+                        gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_TQ1_0,
+                        gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_TQ2_0,
+                    ):
+                        # TODO: use Q4_K and Q6_K
+                        data_qtype = gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.F16
+
                 # No override (data_qtype is False), or wants to be quantized (data_qtype is True)
                 if isinstance(data_qtype, bool):
                     if self.ftype == gguf.LlamaFileType.ALL_F32:
@@ -318,6 +332,10 @@ def prepare_tensors(self):
                         data_qtype = gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.BF16
                     elif self.ftype == gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_Q8_0:
                         data_qtype = gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.Q8_0
+                    elif self.ftype == gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_TQ1_0:
+                        data_qtype = gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.TQ1_0
+                    elif self.ftype == gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_TQ2_0:
+                        data_qtype = gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.TQ2_0
                     else:
                         raise ValueError(f"Unknown file type: {self.ftype.name}")
 
@@ -1623,15 +1641,16 @@ def set_gguf_parameters(self):
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_type(gguf.RopeScalingType.LINEAR)
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_factor(1.0)
 
-    def weight_quant(self, weight):
+    def weight_quant(self, weight: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         dtype = weight.dtype
         weight = weight.float()
-        s = 1 / weight.abs().mean().clamp(min=1e-5)
-        weight = (weight * s).round().clamp(-1, 1) / s
-        scale = weight.abs().max().unsqueeze(0)
-        weight = torch.where(weight.abs().less(1e-6), 0, weight).type(dtype)
-        weight = torch.sign(weight).type(dtype)
-        return weight.type(dtype), scale.type(torch.float32)
+        scale = weight.abs().mean().clamp(min=1e-5)
+        iscale = 1 / scale
+        # TODO: multiply by the scale directly instead of inverting it twice
+        # (this is also unnecessarily doubly inverted upstream)
+        # ref: https://huggingface.co/1bitLLM/bitnet_b1_58-3B/blob/af89e318d78a70802061246bf037199d2fb97020/utils_quant.py#L10
+        result = (weight * iscale).round().clamp(-1, 1) / iscale
+        return result.type(dtype)
 
     def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
         new_name = self.map_tensor_name(name)
@@ -1646,11 +1665,9 @@ def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iter
             gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE,
         ]):
             # transform weight into 1/0/-1 (in fp32)
-            weight_torch, scale_torch = self.weight_quant(data_torch)
-            yield (new_name, weight_torch)
-            yield (new_name.removesuffix(".weight") + ".scale", scale_torch)
-        else:
-            yield (new_name, data_torch)
+            data_torch = self.weight_quant(data_torch)
+
+        yield (new_name, data_torch)
 
 
 @Model.register("GrokForCausalLM")
@@ -4011,8 +4028,8 @@ def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
         help="path to write to; default: based on input. {ftype} will be replaced by the outtype.",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
-        "--outtype", type=str, choices=["f32", "f16", "bf16", "q8_0", "auto"], default="f16",
-        help="output format - use f32 for float32, f16 for float16, bf16 for bfloat16, q8_0 for Q8_0, auto for the highest-fidelity 16-bit float type depending on the first loaded tensor type",
+        "--outtype", type=str, choices=["f32", "f16", "bf16", "q8_0", "tq1_0", "tq2_0", "auto"], default="f16",
+        help="output format - use f32 for float32, f16 for float16, bf16 for bfloat16, q8_0 for Q8_0, tq1_0 or tq2_0 for ternary, and auto for the highest-fidelity 16-bit float type depending on the first loaded tensor type",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--bigendian", action="store_true",
@@ -4099,6 +4116,8 @@ def main() -> None:
         "f16": gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_F16,
         "bf16": gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_BF16,
         "q8_0": gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_Q8_0,
+        "tq1_0": gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_TQ1_0,
+        "tq2_0": gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_TQ2_0,
         "auto": gguf.LlamaFileType.GUESSED,
     }
 

examples/quantize/quantize.cpp

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ static const std::vector<struct quant_option> QUANT_OPTIONS = {
     { "IQ2_M",    LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_IQ2_M,    " 2.7  bpw quantization",            },
     { "IQ1_S",    LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_IQ1_S,    " 1.56 bpw quantization",            },
     { "IQ1_M",    LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_IQ1_M,    " 1.75 bpw quantization",            },
+    { "TQ1_0",    LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_TQ1_0,    " 1.69 bpw ternarization",           },
+    { "TQ2_0",    LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_TQ2_0,    " 2.06 bpw ternarization",           },
     { "Q2_K",     LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_Q2_K,     " 2.96G, +3.5199 ppl @ Llama-3-8B",  },
     { "Q2_K_S",   LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_Q2_K_S,   " 2.96G, +3.1836 ppl @ Llama-3-8B",  },
     { "IQ3_XXS",  LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_IQ3_XXS,  " 3.06 bpw quantization",            },

ggml/include/ggml.h

@@ -395,6 +395,8 @@ extern "C" {
         GGML_TYPE_Q4_0_4_4 = 31,
         GGML_TYPE_Q4_0_4_8 = 32,
         GGML_TYPE_Q4_0_8_8 = 33,
+        GGML_TYPE_TQ1_0   = 34,
+        GGML_TYPE_TQ2_0   = 35,
         GGML_TYPE_COUNT,
     };
 

ggml/src/ggml-common.h

@@ -227,6 +227,25 @@ typedef struct {
 } block_q8_0x8;
 static_assert(sizeof(block_q8_0x8) == 8 * sizeof(ggml_half) + QK8_0 * 8, "wrong q8_0x8 block size/padding");
 
+//
+// Ternary quantization
+//
+
+// 1.6875 bpw
+typedef struct {
+    uint8_t qs[(QK_K - 4 * QK_K / 64) / 5]; // 5 elements per byte (3^5 = 243 < 256)
+    uint8_t qh[QK_K/64]; // 4 elements per byte
+    ggml_half d;
+} block_tq1_0;
+static_assert(sizeof(block_tq1_0) == sizeof(ggml_half) + QK_K / 64 + (QK_K - 4 * QK_K / 64) / 5, "wrong tq1_0 block size/padding");
+
+// 2.0625 bpw
+typedef struct {
+    uint8_t qs[QK_K/4]; // 2 bits per element
+    ggml_half d;
+} block_tq2_0;
+static_assert(sizeof(block_tq2_0) == sizeof(ggml_half) + QK_K / 4, "wrong tq2_0 block size/padding");
+
 //
 // Super-block quantization structures
 //
@@ -361,6 +380,7 @@ typedef struct {
 } block_iq3_s;
 static_assert(sizeof(block_iq3_s) == sizeof(ggml_half) + 13*(QK_K/32) + IQ3S_N_SCALE, "wrong iq3_s block size/padding");
 
+// 1.5625 bpw
 typedef struct {
     ggml_half d;
     uint8_t  qs[QK_K/8];

ggml/src/ggml-impl.h

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ typedef __fp16 ggml_fp16_internal_t;
 
 // 32-bit ARM compatibility
 
-// vaddvq_s16
+// vaddlvq_s16
 // vpaddq_s16
 // vpaddq_s32
 // vaddvq_s32
@@ -185,12 +185,9 @@ typedef __fp16 ggml_fp16_internal_t;
 // vzip1_u8
 // vzip2_u8
 
-inline static int32_t vaddvq_s16(int16x8_t v) {
-    return
-        (int32_t)vgetq_lane_s16(v, 0) + (int32_t)vgetq_lane_s16(v, 1) +
-        (int32_t)vgetq_lane_s16(v, 2) + (int32_t)vgetq_lane_s16(v, 3) +
-        (int32_t)vgetq_lane_s16(v, 4) + (int32_t)vgetq_lane_s16(v, 5) +
-        (int32_t)vgetq_lane_s16(v, 6) + (int32_t)vgetq_lane_s16(v, 7);
+inline static int32_t vaddlvq_s16(int16x8_t v) {
+    int32x4_t v0 = vreinterpretq_s32_s64(vpaddlq_s32(vpaddlq_s16(v)));
+    return vgetq_lane_s32(v0, 0) + vgetq_lane_s32(v0, 2);
 }
 
 inline static int16x8_t vpaddq_s16(int16x8_t a, int16x8_t b) {