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whisper-tiny-FP8-Dynamic

Model Overview

  • Model Architecture: whisper-tiny
  • Input: Audio-Text
  • Output: Text
  • Model Optimizations:
  • Weight quantization: FP8
  • Activation quantization: FP8
  • Release Date: 04/16/2025
  • Version: 1.0
  • Model Developers: Neural Magic

Quantized version of openai/whisper-tiny.

Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights of openai/whisper-tiny to FP8 data type, ready for inference with vLLM >= 0.5.2.

Deployment

Use with vLLM

This model can be deployed efficiently using the vLLM backend, as shown in the example below.

python
from vllm.assets.audio import AudioAsset
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

# prepare model
llm = LLM(
    model="neuralmagic/whisper-tiny-FP8-Dynamic",
    max_model_len=448,
    max_num_seqs=400,
    limit_mm_per_prompt={"audio": 1},
)

# prepare inputs
inputs = {  # Test explicit encoder/decoder prompt
    "encoder_prompt": {
        "prompt": "",
        "multi_modal_data": {
            "audio": AudioAsset("winning_call").audio_and_sample_rate,
        },
    },
    "decoder_prompt": "<|startoftranscript|>",
}

# generate response
print("========== SAMPLE GENERATION ==============")
outputs = llm.generate(inputs, SamplingParams(temperature=0.0, max_tokens=64))
print(f"PROMPT  : {outputs[0].prompt}")
print(f"RESPONSE: {outputs[0].outputs[0].text}")
print("==========================================")

vLLM also supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the documentation for more details.

Creation

This model was created with llm-compressor by running the code snippet below.

<details> <summary>Model Creation Code</summary>

bash
python quantize.py \
    --model_path openai/whisper-tiny \
    --quant_path output_dir/whisper-tiny-FP8-Dynamic
python
import argparse
import torch
import os
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import WhisperProcessor
from llmcompressor import oneshot
from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import QuantizationModifier
from llmcompressor.transformers.tracing import TraceableWhisperForConditionalGeneration
from compressed_tensors.quantization import QuantizationType

# --- Args ---
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--model_path', type=str, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--quant_path', type=str, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--observer', type=str, default="minmax")
args = parser.parse_args()

# --- Load Model ---
model = TraceableWhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    args.model_path,
    device_map="auto",
    torch_dtype="auto",
)
model.config.forced_decoder_ids = None
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained(args.model_path)

# --- Recipe (FP8 Dynamic) ---
recipe = [
    QuantizationModifier(
        targets="Linear",
        scheme="FP8_DYNAMIC",
        sequential_targets=["WhisperEncoderLayer", "WhisperDecoderLayer"],
        ignore=["re:.*lm_head"],
    )
]

# --- Run oneshot ---
oneshot(
    model=model,
    recipe=recipe,
    trust_remote_code_model=True,
)

# --- Save ---
os.makedirs(args.quant_path, exist_ok=True)
model.save_pretrained(args.quant_path, save_compressed=True)
processor.save_pretrained(args.quant_path)

</details>

Evaluation

The model was evaluated on LibriSpeech and Fleurs datasets using lmms-eval, via the following commands:

<details> <summary>Evaluation Commands</summary>

Librispeech:

lmms-eval \
    --model=whisper_vllm \
    --model_args="pretrained=neuralmagic-ent/whisper-tiny-FP8-Dynamic" \
    --batch_size 64 \
    --output_path <output_file_path> \
    --tasks librispeech

Fleurs:

lmms-eval \
    --model=whisper_vllm \
    --model_args="pretrained=neuralmagic-ent/whisper-tiny-FP8-Dynamic" \
    --batch_size 64 \
    --output_path <output_file_path> \
    --tasks fleurs

</details>

<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Benchmark</th> <th>Split</th> <th>BF16</th> <th>w8a8</th> <th>Recovery (%)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><b>LibriSpeech (WER)</b></td> <td>test-clean</td> <td>7.6602</td> <td>7.8941</td> <td>96.53%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>test-other</td> <td>17.1041</td> <td>17.1325</td> <td>98.74%</td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><b>Fleurs (X→en, WER)</b></td> <td>cmnhanscn</td> <td>43.8226</td> <td>45.0539</td> <td>97.27%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>en</td> <td>13.6638</td> <td>15.2980</td> <td>89.32%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>yuehanthk</td> <td>60.1848</td> <td>67.5437</td> <td>89.10%</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>