Add bitnet1.58 with custom metal kernel (#219)

* add bitnet

* update activation to relu2

* working bitnet

* remove artifacts

* remove logging

* add custom post quant

* fix dtype and add compile

* fixed weight unpack

* add custom kernel to avoid memory overhead

* compile relu2

* fix weight scale

* remove unused

* add tests and update tuner utils

* update acknowledgements

* add kernel caching

* add act_quant and set float16 as default dtype

* use mx.add and move scaling to kernel

* remove act quant

* move bitlinear layers to separate file

* feat: add falcon-e and other bitnet support

* refactor: address comments

* add support for 1.58bit N-bit quants

* 43.85% speedup in generation performance (M3 max)

* refactor utils

* remove masking (2% gen speed improvement)

* add quantization config

* test llama bitnet

* refactor apply_hf_quant

* default threadgroup: 64 -> 32

* add comment

* fix prompt processing perf

* remove modulo

* compile kernel in the constructor

* Improve the bitnet kernel

* remove benchmark

* refactor bitlinear swap

* format

* remove llama changes

* revert utils

* faster + cleanup

* not trainable

* fix tests

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Co-authored-by: younesbelkada <younes.belkada@tii.ae>
Co-authored-by: Angelos Katharopoulos <a_katharopoulos@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Awni Hannun <awni@apple.com>
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Prince Canuma
2025-07-03 01:34:07 +02:00
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MLX LM was developed with contributions from the following individuals:
- Shunta Saito: Added support for PLaMo models.
- Prince Canuma: Helped add support for `Starcoder2` models.
- Gökdeniz Gülmez: Added support for the following architectures: OpenBMB's `MiniCPM` and `MiniCPM3`, Kyutai's `Helium`, State-Space's`Mamba v1`, Z.ai & THUKEG's `GLM4`, Rednote `dots.llm1`, and Allenai's `OLMoE`; Added support for the following training algorithms: `full-fine-tuning`; Added support for the following other features: `Multiple Optimizers to choose for training`, and `reporting training metrics to WandB (Weights & Biases)`.
- Prince Canuma: Helped add support for the following model architectures: HuggingFace's `Starcoder2`, Cohere's `Cohere (1 and 2)`, Alibaba Qwen's `Qwen (2, 3 and MoE)`, Microsoft's `Phi (3 and 3.5 MoE)`, `BitNet1.58`, Meta's `Llama (3 and 4)`, Google DeepMind's `Gemma 3`, and InterLM's `InternLM 2.5`.
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# Copyright © 2025 Apple Inc.
import mlx.core as mx
import mlx.nn as nn
from mlx.nn.layers.quantized import QuantizedLinear
def make_bitlinear_kernel():
"""
Custom Metal kernel that performs matrix multiplication directly on
packed weights and scales the output. This eliminates the need to
store unpacked weights in memory.
"""
source = """
constexpr int M = 4;
constexpr int BLOCK = 32;
uint tid = thread_position_in_grid.y;
uint in_offset = thread_position_in_grid.x;
uint batch_idx = tid / (out_features / 4);
uint row_idx = tid % (out_features / 4);
float sum[4] = {0.0};
for (uint i = in_offset * M; i < in_features; i += BLOCK * M) {
float v[M];
for (int j=0; j<M; j++) {
v[j] = x[batch_idx * in_features + i + j];
}
for (int j=0; j<M; j++) {
uint8_t w = packed_weights[row_idx * in_features + i + j];
sum[0] += v[j] * ((w & 3) - 1);
sum[1] += v[j] * (((w >> 2) & 3) - 1);
sum[2] += v[j] * (((w >> 4) & 3) - 1);
sum[3] += v[j] * (((w >> 6) & 3) - 1);
}
}
for (int j=0; j<4; j++) {
sum[j] = simd_sum(sum[j]);
}
// Apply weight scaling by diving them or multiplying them
if (in_offset == 0) {
float scale = invert_weight_scales ? 1 / weight_scale[0] : weight_scale[0];
for (int i=0; i<4; i++) {
out[batch_idx * out_features + row_idx + i * (out_features/4)] = static_cast<T>(sum[i] * scale);
}
}
"""
return mx.fast.metal_kernel(
name="bitlinear_matmul",
input_names=["x", "packed_weights", "weight_scale"],
output_names=["out"],
source=source,
)
_bitlinear_kernel = make_bitlinear_kernel()
class BitLinear(nn.Module):
"""
BitLinear module with memory-efficient weight handling.
"""
def __init__(
self,
in_features,
out_features,
bias=True,
invert_weight_scales=False,
):
super().__init__()
self.in_features = in_features
self.out_features = out_features
# Calculate packed dimensions - the first dimension gets packed 4:1
# The weights are ternary so can be represented with 2 bits, and they
# are packed in uint8 tensors, hence the number of values per item is 4
packed_out_features = (out_features + 3) // 4
self.weight = mx.zeros((packed_out_features, in_features), dtype=mx.uint8)
self.invert_weight_scales = invert_weight_scales
self.weight_scale = mx.array([1.0])
if bias:
self.bias = mx.zeros((out_features,))
else:
self.bias = None
def execute_matmul_kernel(self, x, packed_weights):
original_shape = x.shape
if len(original_shape) > 2:
x = x.reshape(-1, original_shape[-1])
total_batch_elements, in_features = x.shape
out_features = self.out_features
dtype = self.weight_scale.dtype
assert x.dtype == dtype, "Wrong type for input."
out = _bitlinear_kernel(
inputs=[
x,
packed_weights,
self.weight_scale,
],
template=[
("T", dtype),
("invert_weight_scales", self.invert_weight_scales),
("in_features", in_features),
("out_features", out_features),
],
grid=(32, total_batch_elements * out_features // 4, 1),
threadgroup=(32, 1, 1), # SIMD width is 32 threads
output_shapes=[(total_batch_elements, out_features)],
output_dtypes=[dtype],
)[0]
if len(original_shape) > 2:
out = out.reshape(*original_shape[:-1], out_features)
return out
def __call__(self, x):
y = self.execute_matmul_kernel(x, self.weight)
if self.bias is not None:
y = mx.add(y, self.bias)
return y
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# Copyright © 2023-2024 Apple Inc.
from dataclasses import dataclass
from functools import partial
from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Union
import mlx.core as mx
import mlx.nn as nn
from .base import BaseModelArgs, create_attention_mask, scaled_dot_product_attention
from .bitlinear_layers import BitLinear
from .rope_utils import initialize_rope
@dataclass
class ModelArgs(BaseModelArgs):
model_type: str
hidden_size: int
num_hidden_layers: int
intermediate_size: int
num_attention_heads: int
num_key_value_heads: int
rms_norm_eps: float
vocab_size: int
head_dim: Optional[int] = None
max_position_embeddings: Optional[int] = None
attention_bias: bool = False
mlp_bias: bool = False
rope_theta: float = 10000
rope_traditional: bool = False
rope_scaling: Optional[Dict[str, Union[float, str]]] = None
tie_word_embeddings: bool = True
class Attention(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs):
super().__init__()
dim = args.hidden_size
self.n_heads = n_heads = args.num_attention_heads
self.n_kv_heads = n_kv_heads = args.num_key_value_heads
self.head_dim = head_dim = args.head_dim or args.hidden_size // n_heads
self.scale = head_dim**-0.5
attention_bias = args.attention_bias
self.q_proj = BitLinear(dim, n_heads * head_dim, bias=attention_bias)
self.k_proj = BitLinear(dim, n_kv_heads * head_dim, bias=attention_bias)
self.v_proj = BitLinear(dim, n_kv_heads * head_dim, bias=attention_bias)
self.o_proj = BitLinear(n_heads * head_dim, dim, bias=attention_bias)
self.rope = initialize_rope(
self.head_dim,
args.rope_theta,
args.rope_traditional,
args.rope_scaling,
args.max_position_embeddings,
)
self.attn_sub_norm = nn.RMSNorm(args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps)
def __call__(
self,
x: mx.array,
mask: Optional[mx.array] = None,
cache: Optional[Any] = None,
) -> mx.array:
B, L, D = x.shape
queries, keys, values = self.q_proj(x), self.k_proj(x), self.v_proj(x)
# Prepare the queries, keys and values for the attention computation
queries = queries.reshape(B, L, self.n_heads, -1).transpose(0, 2, 1, 3)
keys = keys.reshape(B, L, self.n_kv_heads, -1).transpose(0, 2, 1, 3)
values = values.reshape(B, L, self.n_kv_heads, -1).transpose(0, 2, 1, 3)
if cache is not None:
queries = self.rope(queries, offset=cache.offset)
keys = self.rope(keys, offset=cache.offset)
keys, values = cache.update_and_fetch(keys, values)
else:
queries = self.rope(queries)
keys = self.rope(keys)
output = scaled_dot_product_attention(
queries, keys, values, cache=cache, scale=self.scale, mask=mask
)
output = output.transpose(0, 2, 1, 3).reshape(B, L, -1)
output = self.attn_sub_norm(output)
output = self.o_proj(output)
return output
@partial(mx.compile, shapeless=True)
def relu2(x):
return mx.square(nn.relu(x))
class MLP(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs):
super().__init__()
dim = args.hidden_size
hidden_dim = args.intermediate_size
if hasattr(args, "mlp_bias"):
mlp_bias = args.mlp_bias
else:
mlp_bias = False
self.gate_proj = BitLinear(dim, hidden_dim, bias=mlp_bias)
self.down_proj = BitLinear(hidden_dim, dim, bias=mlp_bias)
self.up_proj = BitLinear(dim, hidden_dim, bias=mlp_bias)
self.ffn_sub_norm = nn.RMSNorm(args.intermediate_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps)
def __call__(self, x) -> mx.array:
x = relu2(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x)
x = self.ffn_sub_norm(x)
x = self.down_proj(x)
return x
class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs):
super().__init__()
self.num_attention_heads = args.num_attention_heads
self.hidden_size = args.hidden_size
self.self_attn = Attention(args)
self.mlp = MLP(args)
self.input_layernorm = nn.RMSNorm(args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps)
self.post_attention_layernorm = nn.RMSNorm(
args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps
)
def __call__(
self,
x: mx.array,
mask: Optional[mx.array] = None,
cache: Optional[Any] = None,
) -> mx.array:
r = self.self_attn(self.input_layernorm(x), mask, cache)
h = x + r
r = self.mlp(self.post_attention_layernorm(h))
out = h + r
return out
class LlamaModel(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs):
super().__init__()
self.args = args
self.vocab_size = args.vocab_size
self.num_hidden_layers = args.num_hidden_layers
self.embed_tokens = nn.Embedding(args.vocab_size, args.hidden_size)
self.layers = [
TransformerBlock(args=args) for _ in range(args.num_hidden_layers)
]
self.norm = nn.RMSNorm(args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps)
def __call__(
self,
inputs: mx.array,
mask: mx.array = None,
cache=None,
):
h = self.embed_tokens(inputs)
if mask is None:
mask = create_attention_mask(h, cache)
if cache is None:
cache = [None] * len(self.layers)
for layer, c in zip(self.layers, cache):
h = layer(h, mask, cache=c)
return self.norm(h)
class Model(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs):
super().__init__()
self.args = args
self.model_type = args.model_type
self.model = LlamaModel(args)
if not args.tie_word_embeddings:
self.lm_head = nn.Linear(args.hidden_size, args.vocab_size, bias=False)
def __call__(
self,
inputs: mx.array,
mask: mx.array = None,
cache=None,
):
out = self.model(inputs, mask, cache)
if self.args.tie_word_embeddings:
out = self.model.embed_tokens.as_linear(out)
else:
out = self.lm_head(out)
return out
def sanitize(self, weights):
# Remove unused precomputed rotary freqs
weights = {
k: v for k, v in weights.items() if "self_attn.rotary_emb.inv_freq" not in k
}
if self.args.tie_word_embeddings:
weights.pop("lm_head.weight", None)
return weights
@property
def layers(self):
return self.model.layers
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model, args.model_type, args.vocab_size, args.num_hidden_layers
)
def test_bitnet(self):
from mlx_lm.models import bitnet
args = bitnet.ModelArgs(
model_type="bitnet",
hidden_size=1024,
num_hidden_layers=4,
intermediate_size=2048,
num_attention_heads=4,
num_key_value_heads=4,
rms_norm_eps=1e-5,
vocab_size=10_000,
)
model = bitnet.Model(args)
self.model_test_runner(
model, args.model_type, args.vocab_size, args.num_hidden_layers
)
def test_phi2(self):
from mlx_lm.models import phi