RedHatAI/whisper-tiny-FP8-Dynamic
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.
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>
python quantize.py \
--model_path openai/whisper-tiny \
--quant_path output_dir/whisper-tiny-FP8-Dynamicimport 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 librispeechFleurs:
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>
