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26 changes: 17 additions & 9 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -347,6 +347,12 @@ instruction-tuned and thus does not respond to instructions. Make sure you are
using an instruction-tuned model (`2b-it-sfp`, `2b-it`, `7b-it-sfp`, `7b-it`)
and not a pre-trained model (any model with a `-pt` suffix).

**What sequence lengths are supported?**

See `seq_len` in `configs.cc`. For the Gemma 3 models larger than 1B, this is
typically 32K but 128K would also work given enough RAM. Note that long
sequences will be slow due to the quadratic cost of attention.

**How do I convert my fine-tune to a `.sbs` compressed model file?**

For PaliGemma (1 and 2) checkpoints, you can use
Expand All @@ -372,15 +378,17 @@ pytorch checkpoint. (The code may need updates to work with Gemma-2 models.)

**What are some easy ways to make the model run faster?**

1. Make sure you are using the 8-bit switched floating point `-sfp` models.
2. If you're on a laptop, make sure power mode is set to maximize performance
and saving mode is **off**. For most laptops, the power saving modes get
activated automatically if the computer is not plugged in.
3. Close other unused cpu-intensive applications.
4. On macs, anecdotally we observe a "warm-up" ramp-up in speed as performance
cores get engaged.
5. Experiment with the `--num_threads` argument value. Depending on the device,
larger numbers don't always mean better performance.
1. Make sure you are using the 8-bit switched floating point `-sfp` models.
These are half the size of bf16 and thus use less memory bandwidth and cache
space.
2. If you're on a laptop, make sure power mode is set to maximize performance
and saving mode is **off**. For most laptops, the power saving modes get
activated automatically if the computer is not plugged in.
3. Close other unused cpu-intensive applications.
4. On macs, anecdotally we observe a "warm-up" ramp-up in speed as performance
cores get engaged.
5. Experiment with the `--num_threads` argument value. Depending on the device,
larger numbers don't always mean better performance.

We're also working on algorithmic and optimization approaches for faster
inference, stay tuned.
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion gemma/common.cc
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Expand Up @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ constexpr PromptWrapping kPromptWrapping[] = {
PromptWrapping::PALIGEMMA, PromptWrapping::PALIGEMMA, // PG2 3B 224/448
PromptWrapping::PALIGEMMA, PromptWrapping::PALIGEMMA, // PG2 10B 224/448
PromptWrapping::GEMMA_VLM, // Gemma3 4B
PromptWrapping::GEMMA_IT, // Gemma3 1B
PromptWrapping::GEMMA_PT, // Gemma3 1B
PromptWrapping::GEMMA_VLM, // Gemma3 12B
PromptWrapping::GEMMA_VLM, // Gemma3 27B
};
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