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[NeurIPS'24]Q-VLM: Post-training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models

Efficient and accurate memory saving method towards W4A4 large multi-modal models. [Paper]

Q-VLM: Post-training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
Changyuan Wang, Ziwei Wang, Xiuwei Xu, Yansong Tang, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu

Install

1. Clone this repository and navigate to QVLM folder

git clone https://github.com/ChangyuanWang17/QVLM.git
cd QVLM

2. Install Package

conda create -n QVLM python=3.10 -y
conda activate QVLM
pip install --upgrade pip  # enable PEP 660 support
pip install -e .

3. Install additional packages for Q-VLM

pip uninstall bitsandbytes
cd custom_bitsandbytes
python setup.py install

Generate and evaluate SQA response

The following experiments were performed in GeForce RTX 3090 with 24GB memory.

sh scripts/generate_sqa_response.sh
sh scripts/evaluate_sqa_response.sh

Generate and evaluate with multi GPUs

sh scripts/generate_sqa_response_multi.sh
sh scripts/evaluate_sqa_response_multi.sh

Pretrained LVLM Weights

Please check out Model Zoo for all public LLaVA checkpoints, and the instructions of how to use the weights.

ScienceQA

Please check out the documentation here.

Acknowledgement

We thank the authors of following works for opening source their excellent codes.

• LLaVA
• bitsandbytes