MLC LLM

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Machine Learning Compilation for Large Language Models (MLC LLM) is a high-performance universal deployment solution that allows native deployment of any large language models with native APIs with compiler acceleration. The mission of this project is to enable everyone to develop, optimize and deploy AI models natively on everyone's devices with ML compilation techniques.

Universal deployment. MLC LLM supports the following platforms and hardware:

	AMD GPU	NVIDIA GPU	Apple GPU	Intel GPU
Linux / Win	✅ Vulkan, ROCm	✅ Vulkan, CUDA	N/A	✅ Vulkan
macOS	✅ Metal (dGPU)	N/A	✅ Metal	✅ Metal (iGPU)
Web Browser	✅ WebGPU and WASM
iOS / iPadOS	✅ Metal on Apple A-series GPU
Android	✅ OpenCL on Adreno GPU		✅ OpenCL on Mali GPU

Scalable. MLC LLM scales universally on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, cloud and gaming GPUs. Below showcases our single batch decoding performance with prefilling = 1 and decoding = 256.

Performance of 4-bit CodeLlama-34B and Llama2-70B on two NVIDIA RTX 4090 and two AMD Radeon 7900 XTX:

Scaling of fp16 and 4-bit CodeLlama-34 and Llama2-70B on A100-80G-PCIe and A10G-24G-PCIe, up to 8 GPUs:

News

• [10/18/2023] [Post] Scalable multi-GPU support for CUDA and ROCm are official.
• [09/02/2023] Prebuilt ROCm 5.7 and CUDA 12.2 package is available.
• [08/25/2023] CodeLlama support is up.
• [08/14/2023] [Post] Mali GPU support is up on Orange Pi.
• [08/09/2023] [Post] ROCm backend is mature to use.
• [08/02/2023] Dockerfile is released for CUDA performance benchmarking.
• [07/19/2023] Support for Llama2-7B/13B/70B is up.
• [05/22/2023] [Post] RedPajama support is up.
• [05/08/2023] [Post] MLC LLM is now available on Android.
• [05/01/2023] [Post] MLC LLM is released with Metal, Vulkan and CUDA backends.
• [04/14/2023] WebLLM is released prior to MLC LLM with WebGPU and WebAssembly backend.

Getting Started

Please visit our documentation for detailed instructions.

Model Support

MLC LLM supports a wide range of model architectures and variants. We have the following prebuilts which you can use off-the-shelf. Visit Prebuilt Models to see the full list, and Compile Models via MLC to see how to use models not on this list.

Architecture	Prebuilt Model Variants
Llama	Llama-2, Code Llama, Vicuna, WizardLM, WizardMath, OpenOrca Platypus2, FlagAlpha Llama-2 Chinese, georgesung Llama-2 Uncensored
GPT-NeoX	RedPajama
GPT-J
RWKV	RWKV-raven
MiniGPT
GPTBigCode	WizardCoder
ChatGLM
StableLM

Universal Deployment APIs

MLC LLM provides multiple sets of APIs across platforms and environments. These include

• Python API
• OpenAI-compatible Rest-API
• C++ API
• JavaScript API and Web LLM
• Swift API for iOS App
• Java API and Android App

Citation

Please consider citing our project if you find it useful:

@software{mlc-llm,
    author = {MLC team},
    title = {{MLC-LLM}},
    url = {https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm},
    year = {2023}
}

The underlying techniques of MLC LLM include:

References (Click to expand)

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    title = {TensorIR: An Abstraction for Automatic Tensorized Program Optimization},
    year = {2023},
    isbn = {9781450399166},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3575693.3576933},
    doi = {10.1145/3575693.3576933},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 2},
    pages = {804–817},
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}

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}

Links

• You might want to check out our online public Machine Learning Compilation course for a systematic walkthrough of our approaches.
• WebLLM is a companion project using MLC LLM's WebGPU and WebAssembly backend.
• WebStableDiffusion is a companion project for diffusion models with the WebGPU backend.