NOTE: This is a guide to performing batch inference using the OpenAI batch file format, NOT the complete Batch (REST) API.
The OpenAI batch file format consists of a series of json objects on new lines.
Each line represents a separate request. See the OpenAI package reference for more details.
NOTE: We currently only support /v1/chat/completions
and /v1/embeddings
endpoints (completions coming soon).
- Ensure you are using
vllm >= 0.4.3
. You can check by runningpython -c "import vllm; print(vllm.__version__)"
. - The examples in this document use
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
.- Create a user access token
- Install the token on your machine (Run
huggingface-cli login
). - Get access to the gated model by visiting the model card and agreeing to the terms and conditions.
To follow along with this example, you can download the example batch, or create your own batch file in your working directory.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/main/examples/openai_example_batch.jsonl
Once you've created your batch file it should look like this
$ cat openai_example_batch.jsonl
{"custom_id": "request-1", "method": "POST", "url": "/v1/chat/completions", "body": {"model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", "messages": [{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},{"role": "user", "content": "Hello world!"}],"max_completion_tokens": 1000}}
{"custom_id": "request-2", "method": "POST", "url": "/v1/chat/completions", "body": {"model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", "messages": [{"role": "system", "content": "You are an unhelpful assistant."},{"role": "user", "content": "Hello world!"}],"max_completion_tokens": 1000}}
The batch running tool is designed to be used from the command line.
You can run the batch with the following command, which will write its results to a file called results.jsonl
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.run_batch -i openai_example_batch.jsonl -o results.jsonl --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
You should now have your results at results.jsonl
. You can check your results by running cat results.jsonl
$ cat results.jsonl
{"id":"vllm-383d1c59835645aeb2e07d004d62a826","custom_id":"request-1","response":{"id":"cmpl-61c020e54b964d5a98fa7527bfcdd378","object":"chat.completion","created":1715633336,"model":"meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct","choices":[{"index":0,"message":{"role":"assistant","content":"Hello! It's great to meet you! I'm here to help with any questions or tasks you may have. What's on your mind today?"},"logprobs":null,"finish_reason":"stop","stop_reason":null}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":25,"total_tokens":56,"completion_tokens":31}},"error":null}
{"id":"vllm-42e3d09b14b04568afa3f1797751a267","custom_id":"request-2","response":{"id":"cmpl-f44d049f6b3a42d4b2d7850bb1e31bcc","object":"chat.completion","created":1715633336,"model":"meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct","choices":[{"index":0,"message":{"role":"assistant","content":"*silence*"},"logprobs":null,"finish_reason":"stop","stop_reason":null}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":27,"total_tokens":32,"completion_tokens":5}},"error":null}
The batch runner supports remote input and output urls that are accessible via http/https.
For example, to run against our example input file located at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/main/examples/openai_example_batch.jsonl
, you can run
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.run_batch -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/main/examples/openai_example_batch.jsonl -o results.jsonl --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
To integrate with cloud blob storage, we recommend using presigned urls.
[Learn more about S3 presigned urls here]
- Create an S3 bucket.
- The
awscli
package (Runpip install awscli
) to configure your credentials and interactively use s3. - The
boto3
python package (Runpip install boto3
) to generate presigned urls.
To follow along with this example, you can download the example batch, or create your own batch file in your working directory.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/main/examples/openai_example_batch.jsonl
Once you've created your batch file it should look like this
$ cat openai_example_batch.jsonl
{"custom_id": "request-1", "method": "POST", "url": "/v1/chat/completions", "body": {"model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", "messages": [{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},{"role": "user", "content": "Hello world!"}],"max_completion_tokens": 1000}}
{"custom_id": "request-2", "method": "POST", "url": "/v1/chat/completions", "body": {"model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", "messages": [{"role": "system", "content": "You are an unhelpful assistant."},{"role": "user", "content": "Hello world!"}],"max_completion_tokens": 1000}}
Now upload your batch file to your S3 bucket.
aws s3 cp openai_example_batch.jsonl s3://MY_BUCKET/MY_INPUT_FILE.jsonl
Presigned urls can only be generated via the SDK. You can run the following python script to generate your presigned urls. Be sure to replace the MY_BUCKET
, MY_INPUT_FILE.jsonl
, and MY_OUTPUT_FILE.jsonl
placeholders with your bucket and file names.
(The script is adapted from https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/blob/main/python/example_code/s3/s3_basics/presigned_url.py)
import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
def generate_presigned_url(s3_client, client_method, method_parameters, expires_in):
"""
Generate a presigned Amazon S3 URL that can be used to perform an action.
:param s3_client: A Boto3 Amazon S3 client.
:param client_method: The name of the client method that the URL performs.
:param method_parameters: The parameters of the specified client method.
:param expires_in: The number of seconds the presigned URL is valid for.
:return: The presigned URL.
"""
try:
url = s3_client.generate_presigned_url(
ClientMethod=client_method, Params=method_parameters, ExpiresIn=expires_in
)
except ClientError:
raise
return url
s3_client = boto3.client("s3")
input_url = generate_presigned_url(
s3_client, "get_object", {"Bucket": "MY_BUCKET", "Key": "MY_INPUT_FILE.jsonl"}, 3600
)
output_url = generate_presigned_url(
s3_client, "put_object", {"Bucket": "MY_BUCKET", "Key": "MY_OUTPUT_FILE.jsonl"}, 3600
)
print(f"{input_url=}")
print(f"{output_url=}")
This script should output
input_url='https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/MY_BUCKET/MY_INPUT_FILE.jsonl?AWSAccessKeyId=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST&Signature=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345&Expires=1715800091'
output_url='https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/MY_BUCKET/MY_OUTPUT_FILE.jsonl?AWSAccessKeyId=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST&Signature=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345&Expires=1715800091'
You can now run the batch runner, using the urls generated in the previous section.
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.run_batch \
-i "https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/MY_BUCKET/MY_INPUT_FILE.jsonl?AWSAccessKeyId=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST&Signature=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345&Expires=1715800091" \
-o "https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/MY_BUCKET/MY_OUTPUT_FILE.jsonl?AWSAccessKeyId=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST&Signature=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345&Expires=1715800091" \
--model --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Your results are now on S3. You can view them in your terminal by running
aws s3 cp s3://MY_BUCKET/MY_OUTPUT_FILE.jsonl -
- Ensure you are using
vllm >= 0.5.5
.
Add embedding requests to your batch file. The following is an example:
{"custom_id": "request-1", "method": "POST", "url": "/v1/embeddings", "body": {"model": "intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct", "input": "You are a helpful assistant."}}
{"custom_id": "request-2", "method": "POST", "url": "/v1/embeddings", "body": {"model": "intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct", "input": "You are an unhelpful assistant."}}
You can even mix chat completion and embedding requests in the batch file, as long as the model you are using supports both chat completion and embeddings (note that all requests must use the same model).
You can run the batch using the same command as in earlier examples.
You can check your results by running cat results.jsonl
$ cat results.jsonl
{"id":"vllm-db0f71f7dec244e6bce530e0b4ef908b","custom_id":"request-1","response":{"status_code":200,"request_id":"vllm-batch-3580bf4d4ae54d52b67eee266a6eab20","body":{"id":"embd-33ac2efa7996430184461f2e38529746","object":"list","created":444647,"model":"intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct","data":[{"index":0,"object":"embedding","embedding":[0.016204833984375,0.0092010498046875,0.0018358230590820312,-0.0028228759765625,0.001422882080078125,-0.0031147003173828125,...]}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":8,"total_tokens":8,"completion_tokens":0}}},"error":null}
...```