Phi-4-mini-FastDraft-120M-int8-ov

Phi-4-mini-FastDraft-120M-int8-ov

Description

FastDraft is a novel and efficient approach for pre-training and aligning a draft model to any LLM to be used with speculative decoding, by incorporating efficient pre-training followed by fine-tuning over synthetic datasets generated by the target model. FastDraft was presented in https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11055 at ENLSP@NeurIPS24 by Intel Labs.

This is a draft model that was trained with FastDraft to accompany Phi-4-mini-instruct. This is Phi-4-mini-FastDraft-120M model converted to the OpenVINO™ IR (Intermediate Representation) format with weights compressed to INT8 by Optimum.

Quantization Parameters

Weight compression was performed using nncf.compress_weights with the following parameters:

• mode: INT8_ASYM

For more information on quantization, check the OpenVINO model optimization guide.

Compatibility

The provided OpenVINO™ IR model is compatible with:

• OpenVINO version 2025.1 and higher
• Optimum Intel 1.23.0 and higher

Running Model Inference with OpenVINO GenAI

1. Install packages required for using OpenVINO GenAI with Speculative decoding:

pip install openvino-genai huggingface_hub

1. Download models from HuggingFace Hub

import huggingface_hub as hf_hub
 
main_model_id = "OpenVINO/Phi-4-mini-instruct-int4-ov"
draft_model_id = "OpenVINO/Phi-4-mini-FastDraft-120M-int8-ov"
 
main_model_path = "main"
draft_model_path = "draft"
 
hf_hub.snapshot_download(main_model_id, local_dir=main_model_path)
hf_hub.snapshot_download(draft_model_id, local_dir=draft_model_path)

1. Run model inference using the speculative decoding and specify the pipeline parameters:

import openvino_genai
 
prompt = “What is OpenVINO?”
 
config = openvino_genai.GenerationConfig()
config.num_assistant_tokens = 3
config.max_new_tokens = 128
 
def streamer(subword):
    print(subword, end='', flush=True)
    return False
 
main_device = "CPU"
draft_device = "CPU"
 
draft_model = openvino_genai.draft_model(draft_model_path, draft_device)

pipe = openvino_genai.LLMPipeline(args.model_dir, main_device, draft_model=draft_model)
 
pipe.generate(prompt, config, streamer)

More GenAI usage examples can be found in OpenVINO GenAI library docs and samples

Legal Information

The model is distributed under the Intel Research Use License Agreement.

Disclaimer

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