| # Mamba |
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| > **Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces**\ |
| > Albert Gu*, Tri Dao*\ |
| > Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752 |
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| ## About |
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| Mamba is a new state space model architecture showing promising performance on information-dense data such as language modeling, where previous subquadratic models fall short of Transformers. |
| It is based on the line of progress on [structured state space models](https://github.com/state-spaces/s4), |
| with an efficient hardware-aware design and implementation in the spirit of [FlashAttention](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention). |
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| ## Installation |
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| - `pip install causal-conv1d`: an efficient implementation of a simple causal Conv1d layer used inside the Mamba block. |
| - `pip install mamba-ssm`: the core Mamba package. |
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| It can also be built from source with `pip install .` from this repository. |
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| If `pip` complains about PyTorch versions, try passing `--no-build-isolation` to `pip`. |
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| Other requirements: |
| - Linux |
| - NVIDIA GPU |
| - PyTorch 1.12+ |
| - CUDA 11.6+ |
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| ## Usage |
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| We expose several levels of interface with the Mamba model. |
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| ### Selective SSM |
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| Mamba is based on a selective SSM layer, which is the focus of the paper (Section 3; Algorithm 2). |
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| Source: [ops/selective_scan_interface.py](mamba_ssm/ops/selective_scan_interface.py). |
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| ### Mamba Block |
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| The main module of this repository is the Mamba architecture block wrapping the selective SSM. |
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| Source: [modules/mamba_simple.py](mamba_ssm/modules/mamba_simple.py). |
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| Usage: |
| ``` |
| from mamba_ssm import Mamba |
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| batch, length, dim = 2, 64, 16 |
| x = torch.randn(batch, length, dim).to("cuda") |
| model = Mamba( |
| # This module uses roughly 3 * expand * d_model^2 parameters |
| d_model=dim, # Model dimension d_model |
| d_state=16, # SSM state expansion factor |
| d_conv=4, # Local convolution width |
| expand=2, # Block expansion factor |
| ).to("cuda") |
| y = model(x) |
| assert y.shape == x.shape |
| ``` |
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| ### Mamba Language Model |
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| Finally, we provide an example of a complete language model: a deep sequence model backbone (with repeating Mamba blocks) + language model head. |
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| Source: [models/mixer_seq_simple.py](mamba_ssm/models/mixer_seq_simple.py). |
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| This is an example of how to integrate Mamba into an end-to-end neural network. |
| This example is used in the generation scripts below. |
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| ## Pretrained Models |
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| Pretrained models are uploaded to |
| [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/state-spaces): `mamba-130m`, `mamba-370m`, |
| `mamba-790m`, `mamba-1.4b`, `mamba-2.8b`. |
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| The models will be autodownloaded by the generation script below. |
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| These models were trained on the [Pile](https://huggingface.co/datasets/EleutherAI/pile), and follow the standard model dimensions described by GPT-3 and followed by many open source models: |
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| | Parameters | Layers | Model dim. | |
| |------------|--------|------------| |
| | 130M | 12 | 768 | |
| | 370M | 24 | 1024 | |
| | 790M | 24 | 1536 | |
| | 1.4B | 24 | 2048 | |
| | 2.8B | 32 | 2560 | |
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| (The layer count of Mamba should be doubled, as two Mamba blocks are needed for each "layer" (MHA block + MLP block) of a Transformer.) |
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| Note: these are base models trained only for 300B tokens, without any form of downstream modification (instruction tuning, etc.). |
| Performance is expected to be comparable or better than other architectures trained on similar data, but not to match larger or fine-tuned models. |
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| ## Evaluations |
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| To run zero-shot evaluations of models (corresponding to Table 3 of the paper), |
| we use the |
| [lm-evaluation-harness](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/tree/big-refactor) |
| library. |
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| 1. Pull the `lm-evaluation-harness` repo by `git submodule update --init |
| --recursive`. We use the `big-refactor` branch. |
| 2. Install `lm-evaluation-harness`: `pip install -e 3rdparty/lm-evaluation-harness` |
| 3. Run evaluation with (more documentation at the [lm-evaluation-harness](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/tree/big-refactor) repo): |
| ``` |
| python evals/lm_harness_eval.py --model mamba --model_args pretrained=state-spaces/mamba-130m --tasks lambada_openai,hellaswag,piqa,arc_easy,arc_challenge,winogrande --device cuda --batch_size 64 |
| python evals/lm_harness_eval.py --model hf --model_args pretrained=EleutherAI/pythia-160m --tasks lambada_openai,hellaswag,piqa,arc_easy,arc_challenge,winogrande --device cuda --batch_size 64 |
| ``` |
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| Note that the result of each task might differ from reported values by 0.1-0.3 due to noise in the evaluation process. |
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| ## Inference |
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| The script [benchmarks/benchmark_generation_mamba_simple.py](benchmarks/benchmark_generation_mamba_simple.py) |
| 1. autoloads a model from the HuggingFace Hub, |
| 2. generates completions of a user-specified prompt, |
| 3. benchmarks the inference speed of this generation. |
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| Other configurable options include the top-p (nucleus sampling) probability, and the softmax temperature. |
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| ### Examples |
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| To test generation latency (e.g. batch size = 1) with different sampling strategies: |
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| ``` |
| python benchmarks/benchmark_generation_mamba_simple.py --model-name "state-spaces/mamba-2.8b" --prompt "My cat wrote all this CUDA code for a new language model and" --topp 0.9 --temperature 0.5 |
| python benchmarks/benchmark_generation_mamba_simple.py --model-name "EleutherAI/pythia-2.8b" --prompt "My cat wrote all this CUDA code for a new language model and" --topp 0.9 --temperature 0.5 |
| ``` |
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| To test generation throughput with random prompts (e.g. large batch size): |
| ``` |
| python benchmarks/benchmark_generation_mamba_simple.py --model-name "state-spaces/mamba-2.8b" --batch 128 |
| python benchmarks/benchmark_generation_mamba_simple.py --model-name "EleutherAI/pythia-2.8b" --batch 128 |
| ``` |
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| ## Citation |
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| If you use this codebase, or otherwise found our work valuable, please cite Mamba: |
| ``` |
| @article{mamba, |
| title={Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces}, |
| author={Gu, Albert and Dao, Tri}, |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.00752}, |
| year={2023} |
| } |
| ``` |
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