[QCOM] [Llama] the size of w4a16 quantized Llama 3.2 1B Pte is too large

[tiger-of-shawn]

use the latest executorch codebase:

get the pte file:

the file size is:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 2.9G Apr 16 06:53 test.pte

while the float model size is:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 2.4G Oct 23 03:12 assets/models/Llama-3.2-1B/original/consolidated.00.pth

the convert script is:

#Export Llama Model
function export_llama {
model_path="$1"
# 4 bits weight only quantize
python -m examples.models.llama.export_llama
-t "$model_path/original/tokenizer.model"
--checkpoint "$model_path/original/consolidated.00.pth"
-p "$model_path/original/params.json"
--disable_dynamic_shape
--qnn
--pt2e_quantize qnn_16a4w
--model llama3_2
-d fp32
--use_kv_cache
--num_sharding 1
--soc_model SM8650
--metadata '{"get_bos_id":128000, "get_eos_ids":[128009, 128001]}'
-v
--output_name="test.pte"
}

why the pte file size is larger than float model ?

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when I use the v0.4 executorch codebase to get the pte with the same configure, the pte's size is normal:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 1.1G Apr 16 06:57 output.pte

cc @cccclai @winskuo-quic @shewu-quic @cbilgin @larryliu0820 @mergennachin @helunwencser @jackzhxng

[GregoryComer]

@cccclai Do you have ideas on troubleshooting this? Thanks.

[tiger-of-shawn]

I can show more information to help Qualcom partner, the model's quantization is already done:

[tiger-of-shawn]

more information, when I change the quantize config from w4a16 to w8a8, I got a smaller pte file, which is unbelievable:

function export_llama {
    model_path="$1"
    # 4 bits weight only quantize
    python -m examples.models.llama.export_llama \
    -t "$model_path/original/tokenizer.model" \
    --checkpoint "$model_path/original/consolidated.00.pth" \
    -p "$model_path/original/params.json" \
    --disable_dynamic_shape \
    --qnn \
    --pt2e_quantize qnn_8a8w \
    --model llama3_2 \
    -d fp32 \
    --use_kv_cache  \
    --num_sharding 1 \
    --soc_model SM8650 \
    --metadata '{"get_bos_id":128000, "get_eos_ids":[128009, 128001]}' \
    -v \
    --output_name="test.pte"
}

the pte file size:

[tiger-of-shawn]

the result on device is wrong for both w4a16 and w8a8 pte file

[cccclai]

Regarding the result, yeah currently the ptq quantization algo isn't good enough and we're working on it. In the meanwhile, https://github.com/pytorch/executorch/tree/main/examples/qualcomm/oss_scripts/llama is the current active developed version to run llama on htp. Can you check the model size with this version?