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<section id="tensorrt-llm-model-weights-loader">
<h1>TensorRT-LLM Model Weights Loader<a class="headerlink" href="#tensorrt-llm-model-weights-loader" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<section id="overview">
<h2>Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#overview" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>The weights loader is designed for easily converting and loading external weight checkpoints into TensorRT-LLM models.</p>
</section>
<section id="workflow">
<h2>Workflow<a class="headerlink" href="#workflow" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Weight checkpoints can be generated from all sources, and may have different naming and data layouts compared to TRT-LLMs requirements. E.g.:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># HuggingFace LLaMA checkpoints</span>
<span class="o">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.embed_tokens.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>vocab_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.input_layernorm.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.mlp.down_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size,<span class="w"> </span>inter_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.mlp.gate_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>inter_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.mlp.up_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>inter_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.post_attention_layernorm.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.self_attn.q_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.self_attn.k_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.self_attn.v_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;model.layers.0.self_attn.o_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span>...,
<span class="o">}</span>
<span class="c1"># TensorRT-LLM expected weights</span>
<span class="o">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;transformer.vocab_embedding.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>vocab_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;transformer.layers.0.input_layernorm.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;transformer.layers.0.mlp.down_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size,<span class="w"> </span>inter_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;transformer.layers.0.mlp.gate_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>inter_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;transformer.layers.0.mlp.up_proj.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>inter_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;transformer.layers.0.post_layernorm.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;transformer.layers.0.attention.qkv.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size<span class="w"> </span>*<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">3</span>,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Different layout</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;transformer.layers.0.attention.dense.weight&quot;</span>:<span class="w"> </span>torch.Tensor<span class="o">([</span>hidden_size,<span class="w"> </span>hidden_size<span class="o">])</span>,
<span class="w"> </span>...,
<span class="o">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Conversion means converting the dictionary of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{external_keys:external_weights}</span></code> into <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{tllm_keys:tllm_weights}</span></code>, it includes changing the naming logic and data layouts, and is contains of the following parts:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>Translate a TRT-LLM parameter name into external-format name(s).</p></li>
<li><p>Loading tensor slice(s) according to the translated names.</p></li>
<li><p>Postprocess the tensor(s) into target layout.</p></li>
</ol>
<section id="translator">
<h3>Translator<a class="headerlink" href="#translator" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>TRT-LLM parameter names are translated in units of sections divided by dots. E.g.:</p>
<div class="pst-scrollable-table-container"><table class="table">
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head text-center"><p>TensorRT-LLM key</p></th>
<th class="head text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">transformer</span></code></p></th>
<th class="head"><p>.</p></th>
<th class="head text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">layers</span></code></p></th>
<th class="head"><p>.</p></th>
<th class="head text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code></p></th>
<th class="head"><p>.</p></th>
<th class="head text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">attention</span></code></p></th>
<th class="head"><p>.</p></th>
<th class="head text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dense</span></code></p></th>
<th class="head"><p>.</p></th>
<th class="head text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">weight</span></code></p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-center"><p>Translated external key</p></td>
<td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">model</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>.</p></td>
<td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">layers</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>.</p></td>
<td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>.</p></td>
<td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self_attn</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>.</p></td>
<td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">o_proj</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>.</p></td>
<td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">weight</span></code></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<p>The mapping between TRT-LLM keywords and HF keywords are described in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span></code> of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ModelWeightsLoader</span></code> class object. <br />
If any of the mappings has one-to-multiple corresponding, the translated key will get multiplied accordingly. E.g.:</p>
<div class="pst-scrollable-table-container"><table class="table">
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head text-center"><p>TensorRT-LLM key and related keyword mapping</p></th>
<th class="head text-center"><p>Translated external keys</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">transformer.layers.0.attention.qkv.weight</span></code><br><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{&quot;qkv&quot;:[q_proj,</span> <span class="pre">k_proj,</span> <span class="pre">v_proj]}</span></code></p></td>
<td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">model.layers.0.self_attn.q_proj.weights</span></code><br><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">model.layers.0.self_attn.k_proj.weights</span></code><br><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">model.layers.0.self_attn.v_proj.weights</span></code></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">transformer.layers.0.mlp.fc.weight</span></code><br><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{&quot;weight&quot;:[qweight,</span> <span class="pre">qzeros,</span> <span class="pre">scales]}</span></code></p></td>
<td class="text-center"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">model.layers.0.mlp.gate_proj.qweight</span></code><br><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">model.layers.0.mlp.gate_proj.qzeros</span></code><br><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">model.layers.0.mlp.gate_proj.scales</span></code></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<p>The default <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span></code> is based on HF LLaMA as:</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">class</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nc">ModelWeightsLoader</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">model_dir</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">customized_key_dict</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">dict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{})</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;transformer&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;model&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;vocab_embedding&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;embed_tokens&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;lm_head&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;lm_head&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;ln_f&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;norm&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;attention&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;self_attn&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;qkv&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">&quot;q_proj&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;k_proj&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;v_proj&quot;</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;dense&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;o_proj&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;gate&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;up_proj&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;proj&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;down_proj&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;fc&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;gate_proj&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;input_layernorm&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;input_layernorm&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;post_layernorm&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;post_attention_layernorm&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">customized_key_dict</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>It can be updated through passing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">customized_key_dict</span></code> when initializing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ModelWeightsLoader</span></code>.</p>
<p>The dictionary will also get updated according to the layer classes. When iterating over parameters,
if the layer class has attribute <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span></code>, for keywords exist both in the default one and the layer-specified one,
the weight loader will translate according to the layer attribute with higher priority.
This can enable the support for different quantization precisions automatically.</p>
</section>
<section id="loading-function">
<h3>Loading function<a class="headerlink" href="#loading-function" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>The loading function can load an arbitrary tensor slice according to its <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">key</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_size</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_dim</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_rank</span></code>.</p>
<p>The template for loading function is as following.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">load_tensor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tp_size</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tp_dim</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tp_rank</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># Retrieve file pointer index</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">key</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shard_map</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">ptr_idx</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shard_map</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="kc">None</span>
<span class="c1"># Load tensor from the corresponding shard</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">ModelWeightsFormat</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SAFETENSORS</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">tensor</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shards</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">ptr_idx</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_slice</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tensor_shape</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tensor</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_shape</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="c1"># Shard and return a tensor slice</span>
<span class="n">slice_shape</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">...</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">tensor</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">slice_shape</span><span class="p">]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When initializing the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ModelWeightsLoader</span></code> object, the file format will be derived from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">model_dir</span></code> through <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">detect_format</span></code>. The following formats are supported for now:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Directory contains or file named <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">*.safetensors</span></code> (Recommended, has better performance)</p></li>
<li><p>Directory contains or file named <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">*.bin</span></code></p></li>
<li><p>Directory contains or file named <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">*.pth</span></code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>To support other formats or in-memory loaded models, the format need to be claimed in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ModelWeightsFormat</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">detect_format()</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">preload()</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">load_tensor()</span></code>.</p>
</section>
<section id="postprocessing-functions">
<h3>Postprocessing functions<a class="headerlink" href="#postprocessing-functions" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>After translation and loading, a TRT-LLM key will become a tensor or a list of tensors, which is the input of postprocessing functions. <br />
Operations including QKV concatenating, MoE weight stacking and weight-only quantization can be handled here.
The template of postprocessing function is:</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Example for 1-1 weights mapping</span>
<span class="k">class</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nc">CustomizedModuleA</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Module</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">super</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tp_dim</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="c1"># Need to set or inherit from parent class</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">postprocess</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">weights</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">proc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="c1"># Example for multiple-multiple weights mapping</span>
<span class="k">class</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nc">CustomizedModuleB</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Module</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">super</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tp_dim</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="c1"># Need to set or inherit from parent class</span>
<span class="c1"># The default value of &quot;weights&quot; in tllm_to_externel_key_dict will be override</span>
<span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s2">&quot;weight&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">&quot;qweight&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;qzeros&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;scales&quot;</span><span class="p">]}</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">postprocess</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># Skipped the postprocess of zeros and weights_scaling_factor</span>
<span class="c1"># They are loaded in the postprocess of weight</span>
<span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;config&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># Passed through kwargs by default</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">endswith</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;weight&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">{}</span>
<span class="c1"># The order in weights is defined in tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span>
<span class="n">qweight</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">qzeros</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scales</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">weights</span>
<span class="n">proccessed_weight</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">proccessed_zeros</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">proc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">qweight</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">qzeros</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">num_heads</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">proccessed_weight</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;weight&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;zeros&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="n">proccessed_zeros</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;weight&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;weights_scaling_factor&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="n">scales</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="examples">
<h2>Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ModelWeightsLoader</span></code> class can support different models with the following levels:</p>
<section id="natively-supported-models">
<h3>Natively supported models<a class="headerlink" href="#natively-supported-models" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>For models with native support, users can call the default weight loader without any other operations.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Using the model weights loader for LLaMA</span>
<span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">tensorrt_llm.models.model_weights_loader</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ModelWeightsLoader</span>
<span class="n">loader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ModelWeightsLoader</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">external_checkpoint_dir</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">loader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">generate_tllm_weights</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">trtllm_model</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>For calibration-free quantization precisions, passing a properly quantized <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">trtllm_model</span></code> will let the weight loader load at the given precision accordingly. The configurations will be read from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">trtllm_model.config</span></code> automatically. For now, LLaMA family models using the default <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span></code> is supported natively.</p>
</section>
<section id="models-with-customized-key-names">
<h3>Models with customized key names<a class="headerlink" href="#models-with-customized-key-names" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>For models with different naming logic, users can still call the default weight loader with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">customized_key_dict</span></code> specified.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Using the model weights loader for the LLM part of LLaVA</span>
<span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">tensorrt_llm.models.model_weights_loader</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ModelWeightsLoader</span>
<span class="n">llava_dict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;transformer&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;language_model.model&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;lm_head&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;language_model.lm_head&quot;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="n">loader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ModelWeightsLoader</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">external_checkpoint_dir</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">llava_dict</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">loader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">generate_tllm_weights</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">trtllm_model</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Users need to specify the different part from the default <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tllm_to_externel_key_dict</span></code>. The loader still have support across different precisions.
The support for LLaVA and Exaone is in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LLaMAForCausalLM.from_hugging_face()</span></code> of <a class="reference download internal" download="" href="../_downloads/408e9af6e2b04a79e78215bde246e8bc/model.py"><span class="xref download myst">model.py</span></a>, and can also be taken as examples.</p>
</section>
<section id="models-with-customized-weight-layout">
<h3>Models with customized weight layout<a class="headerlink" href="#models-with-customized-weight-layout" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>For models with different weight layout, users can write the conversion loop explicitly and do customized operations.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Using the model weights loader for BLOOM</span>
<span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">tensorrt_llm.models.model_weights_loader</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ModelWeightsLoader</span>
<span class="n">bloom_dict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;transformer&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;layers&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;h&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;ln_f&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;ln_f&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;lm_head&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;word_embeddings&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;ln_embed&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;word_embeddings_layernorm&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;vocab_embedding&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;word_embeddings&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;attention&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;self_attention&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;qkv&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;query_key_value&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;dense&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;dense&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;fc&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;dense_h_to_4h&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;proj&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;dense_4h_to_h&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;post_layernorm&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;post_attention_layernorm&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="n">loader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ModelWeightsLoader</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">external_checkpoint_dir</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">bloom_dict</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># See ModelWeightsLoader.generate_tllm_weights()</span>
<span class="n">loader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update_key_mapping</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">trtllm_model</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tllm_weights</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{}</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">_</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">tqdm</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">trtllm_model</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">named_parameters</span><span class="p">()):</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">endswith</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;qkv&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># Passing the callable handle</span>
<span class="n">tllm_weights</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">loader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">load</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">preprocess</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">customized_preprocess</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">tllm_weights</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">loader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">load</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">loader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fill</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tllm_weights</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This will apply <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">preprocess</span></code> after <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">load_tensor()</span></code> and before <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">postprocess</span></code>, and demonstrates how to convert the loaded shard into default HF layout. The loader still have support for precisions quantized from FP16/BF16 (e.g. INT8-wo/INT4-wo), the other precisions may require special operations, and can be addressed inside the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">preprocess</span></code> function.
The support for Qwen-1 is in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">QWenForCausalLM.from_hugging_face()</span></code> of <a class="reference download internal" download="" href="../_downloads/b6815cf245cc7dc7a26a6f727fdc2dc4/model.py"><span class="xref download myst">model.py</span></a>, and can also be taken as example.</p>
</section>
<section id="fully-customized">
<h3>Fully customized<a class="headerlink" href="#fully-customized" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>If the model weights loader cannot satisfy the requirements, users can write the conversion loop totally on their own.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">tllm_weights</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{}</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">tllm_key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">param</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">tqdm</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">trtllm_model</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">named_parameters</span><span class="p">()):</span>
<span class="c1"># Load from external checkpoints</span>
<span class="c1"># The load_tensor() function can also be called here</span>
<span class="n">tensor</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">...</span>
<span class="c1"># Convert tensor and set the values according to the config</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">trtllm_model</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">quantization</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">quant_algo</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">xxx</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="n">param</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">value</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tensor</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>In this mode, every precision require users own support.</p>
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</section>
<section id="trouble-shooting">
<h2>Trouble shooting<a class="headerlink" href="#trouble-shooting" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>The weights loader is enabled for LLaMA family models and Qwen models by default with TensorRT flow only.</p>
<p>If users are encountered with failure caused by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ModelWeightsLoader</span></code>, a workaround is passing environmental variable <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TRTLLM_DISABLE_UNIFIED_CONVERTER=1</span></code> to disable the model weights loader and fallback to the legacy path.</p>
<p>This workaround will be removed in future version after the LLaMA/Qwen weights conversion is stable.</p>
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