falcon3-7b-instruct-int4-sym-ov

Falcon3-7B-Instruct OpenVINO INT4

This repository contains the tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct model optimized for inference with Intel's OpenVINO runtime. The model has been quantized to INT4 using the AWQ quantization scheme for improved performance while maintaining quality.

Model Details

• Original Model: tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct
• Model Type: Instruction-tuned Large Language Model
• Parameters: 7B
• Quantization: INT4 Symmetric AWQ (Activation-aware Weight Quantization)
• Group Size: -1 (per-channel quantization)

Optimization Details

This model was converted from the original Hugging Face model to OpenVINO format using the Optimum Intel library. The following optimization command was used:

optimum-cli export openvino \
  -m tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct \
  --weight-format int4 \
  --sym \
  --dataset auto \
  --awq \
  --group-size -1 \
  falcon3-7b-instruct-int4-sym-ov

Usage

Prerequisites

• OpenVINO 2024.0 or newer
• optimum-intel
• transformers

Sample Inference code with Optimum Intel

from optimum.intel import OVModelForCausalLM
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

# Load tokenizer and model
model_id = "rpanchum/falcon3-7b-instruct-int4-sym-ov"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = OVModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id)

# Generate text
prompt = "Write a short story about a robot learning to paint:"
input_ids = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
output = model.generate(
    **input_ids,
    max_new_tokens=512,
    temperature=0.7,
    top_p=0.9,
)
response = tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)

Sample Inference code with Optimum Intel

1. Install packages required for using OpenVINO GenAI.

pip install openvino-genai huggingface_hub

1. Download model and run inference.

import huggingface_hub as hf_hub

model_id = "rpanchum/falcon3-7b-instruct-int4-sym-ov"
model_path = "falcon3-7b-instruct-int4-sym-ov"

hf_hub.snapshot_download(model_id, local_dir=model_path)

import openvino_genai as ov_genai

device = "CPU"
pipe = ov_genai.LLMPipeline(model_path, device)
print(pipe.generate("What is OpenVINO?", max_length=200))

License

This model inherits the license of the original tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct model.