November 18, 2024

Distilling Llama3.1 8B into 1B in torchtune

In this blog, we present a case study on distilling a Llama 3.1 8B model into Llama 3.2 1B using torchtune’s knowledge distillation recipe. We demonstrate how knowledge distillation (KD) can be used in post-training to improve instruction-following task performance and showcase how users can leverage the recipe.

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October 31, 2024

Deploying LLMs with TorchServe + vLLM

The vLLM engine is currently one of the top-performing ways to execute large language models (LLM). It provides the vllm serve command as an easy option to deploy a model on a single machine. While this is convenient, to serve these LLMs in production and at scale some advanced features are necessary.

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October 30, 2024

Triton Kernel Compilation Stages

The Triton open-source programming language and compiler offers a high-level, python-based approach to create efficient GPU code. In this blog, we highlight the underlying details of how a triton program is compiled and the intermediate representations. For an introduction to Triton, we refer readers to this blog.

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