A Rust, Python and gRPC server for text generation inference. Used in production at HuggingFace to power Hugging Chat, the Inference API and Inference Endpoint.
Text Generation Inference (TGI) is a toolkit for deploying and serving Large Language Models (LLMs). TGI enables high-performance text generation for the most popular open-source LLMs, including Llama, Falcon, StarCoder, BLOOM, GPT-NeoX, and more. TGI implements many features, such as:
- Simple launcher to serve most popular LLMs
- Production ready (distributed tracing with Open Telemetry, Prometheus metrics)
- Tensor Parallelism for faster inference on multiple GPUs
- Token streaming using Server-Sent Events (SSE)
- Continuous batching of incoming requests for increased total throughput
- Optimized transformers code for inference using Flash Attention and Paged Attention on the most popular architectures
- Quantization with bitsandbytes and GPT-Q
- Safetensors weight loading
- Watermarking with A Watermark for Large Language Models
- Logits warper (temperature scaling, top-p, top-k, repetition penalty, more details see transformers.LogitsProcessor)
- Stop sequences
- Log probabilities
- Custom Prompt Generation: Easily generate text by providing custom prompts to guide the model's output
- Fine-tuning Support: Utilize fine-tuned models for specific tasks to achieve higher accuracy and performance
For a detailed starting guide, please see the Quick Tour. The easiest way of getting started is using the official Docker container:
model=tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct
volume=$PWD/data # share a volume with the Docker container to avoid downloading weights every run
docker run --gpus all --shm-size 1g -p 8080:80 -v $volume:/data ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:1.1.0 --model-id $model
And then you can make requests like
curl 127.0.0.1:8080/generate \
-X POST \
-d '{"inputs":"What is Deep Learning?","parameters":{"max_new_tokens":20}}' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
Note: To use GPUs, you need to install the NVIDIA Container Toolkit. We also recommend using NVIDIA drivers with CUDA version 11.8 or higher. For running the Docker container on a machine with no GPUs or CUDA support, it is enough to remove the --gpus all
flag and add --disable-custom-kernels
, please note CPU is not the intended platform for this project, so performance might be subpar.
To see all options to serve your models (in the code or in the cli):
text-generation-launcher --help
You can consult the OpenAPI documentation of the text-generation-inference
REST API using the /docs
route.
The Swagger UI is also available at: https://huggingface.github.io/text-generation-inference.
You have the option to utilize the HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN
environment variable for configuring the token employed by
text-generation-inference
. This allows you to gain access to protected resources.
For example, if you want to serve the gated Llama V2 model variants:
- Go to https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens
- Copy your cli READ token
- Export
HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=<your cli READ token>
or with Docker:
model=meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
volume=$PWD/data # share a volume with the Docker container to avoid downloading weights every run
token=<your cli READ token>
docker run --gpus all --shm-size 1g -e HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=$token -p 8080:80 -v $volume:/data ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:1.1.0 --model-id $model
NCCL
is a communication framework used by
PyTorch
to do distributed training/inference. text-generation-inference
make
use of NCCL
to enable Tensor Parallelism to dramatically speed up inference for large language models.
In order to share data between the different devices of a NCCL
group, NCCL
might fall back to using the host memory if
peer-to-peer using NVLink or PCI is not possible.
To allow the container to use 1G of Shared Memory and support SHM sharing, we add --shm-size 1g
on the above command.
If you are running text-generation-inference
inside Kubernetes
. You can also add Shared Memory to the container by
creating a volume with:
- name: shm
emptyDir:
medium: Memory
sizeLimit: 1Gi
and mounting it to /dev/shm
.
Finally, you can also disable SHM sharing by using the NCCL_SHM_DISABLE=1
environment variable. However, note that
this will impact performance.
text-generation-inference
is instrumented with distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry. You can use this feature
by setting the address to an OTLP collector with the --otlp-endpoint
argument.
You can also opt to install text-generation-inference
locally.
First install Rust and create a Python virtual environment with at least
Python 3.9, e.g. using conda
:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
conda create -n text-generation-inference python=3.9
conda activate text-generation-inference
You may also need to install Protoc.
On Linux:
PROTOC_ZIP=protoc-21.12-linux-x86_64.zip
curl -OL https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v21.12/$PROTOC_ZIP
sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local bin/protoc
sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local 'include/*'
rm -f $PROTOC_ZIP
On MacOS, using Homebrew:
brew install protobuf
Then run:
BUILD_EXTENSIONS=True make install # Install repository and HF/transformer fork with CUDA kernels
make run-falcon-7b-instruct
Note: on some machines, you may also need the OpenSSL libraries and gcc. On Linux machines, run:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev gcc -y
The custom CUDA kernels are only tested on NVIDIA A100s. If you have any installation or runtime issues, you can remove
the kernels by using the DISABLE_CUSTOM_KERNELS=True
environment variable.
Be aware that the official Docker image has them enabled by default.
TGI works out of the box to serve optimized models in this list.
Other architectures are supported on a best-effort basis using:
AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(<model>, device_map="auto")
or
AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(<model>, device_map="auto")
make run-falcon-7b-instruct
You can also quantize the weights with bitsandbytes to reduce the VRAM requirement:
make run-falcon-7b-instruct-quantize
4bit quantization is available using the NF4 and FP4 data types from bitsandbytes. It can be enabled by providing --quantize bitsandbytes-nf4
or --quantize bitsandbytes-fp4
as a command line argument to text-generation-launcher
.
make server-dev
make router-dev
# python
make python-server-tests
make python-client-tests
# or both server and client tests
make python-tests
# rust cargo tests
make rust-tests
# integration tests
make integration-tests