BOINC AI Optimum Habana

🤗 Optimum Habana

🤗 Optimum Habana is the interface between the 🤗 Transformers and 🤗 Diffusers libraries and Habana’s Gaudi processor (HPU). It provides a set of tools that enable easy model loading, training and inference on single- and multi-HPU settings for various downstream tasks as shown in the table below.

HPUs offer fast model training and inference as well as a great price-performance ratio. Check out this blog post about BERT pre-training and this article benchmarking Habana Gaudi2 versus Nvidia A100 GPUs for concrete examples. If you are not familiar with HPUs, we recommend you take a look at our conceptual guide.

The following model architectures, tasks and device distributions have been validated for 🤗 Optimum Habana:

In the tables below, ✅ means single-card, multi-card and DeepSpeed have all been validated.

• Transformers

Architecture	Training	Inference	Tasks
BERT	✅	✅	text classification question answering language modeling
RoBERTa	✅	✅	question answering language modeling
ALBERT	✅	✅	question answering language modeling
DistilBERT	✅	✅	question answering language modeling
GPT2	✅	✅	language modeling text generation
BLOOM(Z)	❌	DeepSpeed	text generation
StarCoder	❌	Single card	text generation
GPT-J	DeepSpeed	Single card DeepSpeed	language modeling text generation
GPT-NeoX	DeepSpeed	DeepSpeed	language modeling text generation
OPT	❌	DeepSpeed	text generation
Llama 2 / CodeLlama	DeepSpeed LoRA	DeepSpeed LoRA	language modeling text generation
StableLM	❌	Single card	text generation
Falcon	❌	Single card	text generation
CodeGen	❌	Single card	text generation
MPT	❌	Single card	text generation
T5	✅	✅	summarization translation question answering
BART	❌	Single card	summarization translation question answering
ViT	✅	✅	image classification
Swin	✅	✅	image classification
Wav2Vec2	✅	✅	audio classification speech recognition
CLIP	✅	✅	contrastive image-text training
BridgeTower	✅	✅	contrastive image-text training
ESMFold	❌	Single card	protein folding

• Diffusers

Architecture	Training	Inference	<center>Tasks</center>
Stable Diffusion	❌	Single card	text-to-image generation
LDM3D	❌	Single card	text-to-image generation

Other models and tasks supported by the 🌍 Transformers and 🌍 Diffusers library may also work. You can refer to this section for using them with 🌍 Optimum Habana. Besides, this page explains how to modify any example from the 🌍 Transformers library to make it work with 🌍 Optimum Habana.