Support NF4 on CPU backend

bitsandbytes/autograd/_functions.py

@@ -572,7 +572,8 @@ def matmul_4bit(
     bias=None,
 ):
     assert quant_state is not None
-    if A.numel() == A.shape[-1] and A.requires_grad == False:
+    if (A.numel() == A.shape[-1] or A.device.type == "cpu") and A.requires_grad == False:
+        # CPU backend does not require A to be a vector
         if A.shape[-1] % quant_state.blocksize != 0:
             warn(
                 f"Some matrices hidden dimension is not a multiple of {quant_state.blocksize} and efficient inference kernels are not supported for these (slow). Matrix input size found: {A.shape}",

bitsandbytes/backends/cpu.py

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
     double_quant_impl,
     igemmlt_impl,
     mm_dequant_impl,
+    quantize_4bit_impl,
+    dequantize_4bit_impl,
+    gemm_4bit_impl,
 )
 
 Tensor = torch.Tensor
@@ -132,7 +135,8 @@ def quantize_4bit(
         quant_type: Literal["fp4", "nf4"] = "fp4",
         quant_storage=torch.uint8,
     ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, QuantState]:
-        raise NotImplementedError("Not yet implemented for CPU backend")
+        assert_on_cpu([A, absmax, out])
+        return quantize_4bit_impl(A, absmax, out, blocksize, compress_statistics, quant_type)
 
     def dequantize_4bit(
         self,
@@ -143,7 +147,8 @@ def dequantize_4bit(
         blocksize: int = 64,
         quant_type: Literal["fp4", "nf4"] = "fp4",
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
-        raise NotImplementedError("Not yet implemented for CPU backend")
+        assert_on_cpu([A, absmax, out])
+        return dequantize_4bit_impl(A, quant_state, absmax, out, blocksize, quant_type)
 
     def gemv_4bit(
         self,
@@ -154,7 +159,11 @@ def gemv_4bit(
         transposed_B=False,
         state: QuantState = None,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
-        raise NotImplementedError("Not yet implemented for CPU backend")
+        assert_on_cpu([A, B, out])
+        if state is None:
+            raise ValueError("state cannot be None. gemv_4bit() requires the state from quantize_4bit()")
+
+        return gemm_4bit_impl(A, B, out, transposed_A, transposed_B, state)
 
     def dequantize_blockwise(
         self,

bitsandbytes/backends/cpu_xpu_common.py

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 import warnings
-
 import torch
+from typing import Optional
+from bitsandbytes.functional import (
+    get_4bit_type,
+    quantize_blockwise,
+    dequantize_blockwise,
+    QuantState,
+)
 
 try:
     # to support Intel CPU/GPU (XPU) backend
@@ -228,3 +234,261 @@ def mm_dequant_impl(
         out = out + bias.to(compute_dtype)
     out = out.to(output_dtype)
     return out
+
+
+NF4_QUANT_TABLE = [
+    -1.0 - 1e-2,           # 0b0000
+    -0.8480964004993439,   # 0b0001
+    -0.6106329262256622,   # 0b0010
+    -0.4599952697753906,   # 0b0011
+    -0.33967943489551544,  # 0b0100
+    -0.23460740596055984,  # 0b0101
+    -0.13791173323988914,  # 0b0110
+    -0.045525018125772476, # 0b0111
+    0.03979014977812767,   # 0b1000
+    0.1202552504837513,    # 0b1001
+    0.2035212516784668,    # 0b1010
+    0.2920137718319893,    # 0b1011
+    0.3893125355243683,    # 0b1100
+    0.5016634166240692,    # 0b1101
+    0.6427869200706482,    # 0b1110
+    0.8614784181118011,    # 0b1111
+]
+
+
+# It's faster not to use torch.compile
+def quantize_4bit_impl(
+    A: Tensor,
+    absmax: Tensor = None,
+    out: Tensor = None,
+    blocksize=64,
+    compress_statistics=False,
+    quant_type="nf4",
+) -> Tensor:
+    """
+    Quantize tensor A in blocks of 4-bit values.
+
+    Quantizes tensor A by dividing it into blocks which are independently quantized to FP4.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    A : torch.Tensor
+        The input tensor.
+    absmax : torch.Tensor
+        The absmax values.
+    out : torch.Tensor
+        The output tensor (8-bit).
+    blocksize : int
+        The blocksize used in quantization.
+    quant_type : str
+        The 4-bit quantization data type {fp4, nf4}, only nf4 is supported now
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    torch.Tensor:
+        The 8-bit tensor with packed 4-bit values.
+    tuple(torch.Tensor, torch.Size, torch.dtype, int):
+        The quantization state to undo the quantization.
+    """
+    if quant_type != "nf4":
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            f"4-bit quantization data type {quant_type} is not implemented for CPU/XPU."
+        )
+    n = A.numel()
+    input_shape = A.shape
+    blocks = n // blocksize
+    blocks += 1 if n % blocksize > 0 else 0
+
+    if absmax is None:
+        absmax = torch.zeros((blocks,), device=A.device, dtype=A.dtype)
+
+    if out is None:
+        out = torch.zeros(((n + 1) // 2), dtype=torch.uint8, device=A.device)
+
+    assert blocksize in [4096, 2048, 1024, 512, 256, 128, 64]
+    rem = n % blocksize
+    has_rem = rem > 0
+
+    # Scale tensor to [-1, 1]
+    A_reshaped = A.reshape(n)
+    A_com = A_reshaped[:n - rem]
+    A_com_reshaped = A_com.reshape(n // blocksize, blocksize)
+    absmax[:blocks - has_rem] = torch.abs(A_com_reshaped).max(dim=-1)[0]
+    scaled_A = torch.clamp(A_com_reshaped * (1 / absmax[:blocks - has_rem].view(-1, 1)), -1, 1)
+    scaled_A = scaled_A.reshape(-1)
+    if has_rem:
+        absmax[-1] = torch.abs(A_reshaped[n - rem:]).max()
+        scaled_A_rem = torch.clamp(A_reshaped[n - rem:] * (1 / absmax[-1]), -1, 1)
+        scaled_A = torch.cat([scaled_A, scaled_A_rem], dim=0)
+    # map [-1, 1] to nf4
+    out_uint8 = torch.empty(scaled_A.shape, dtype=torch.uint8)
+    for i in range(len(NF4_QUANT_TABLE)):
+        out_uint8[scaled_A > NF4_QUANT_TABLE[i]] = i
+    if out_uint8.size(-1) % 2:
+        out_uint8 = torch.nn.functional.pad(out_uint8, (0, 1), value=0)
+    out[:] = out_uint8[1::2].bitwise_left_shift(4).bitwise_or_(out_uint8[::2])
+
+    code = get_4bit_type(quant_type, device=A.device)
+
+    if compress_statistics:
+        raise NotImplementedError("bnb_4bit_use_double_quant is not supported yet for CPU/XPU")
+    else:
+        state = QuantState(
+            absmax=absmax,
+            shape=input_shape,
+            dtype=A.dtype,
+            blocksize=blocksize,
+            code=code,
+            quant_type=quant_type,
+        )
+
+    if ipex_cpu and _ipex_cpu_version_prereq(2, 2) and input_shape[0] % blocksize == 0:
+        state.op_context = torch.ops.ipex_prepack.weight_only_qlinear_prepack(
+            out.reshape([input_shape[0], input_shape[1] // 2]),
+            ipex_cpu.quantization.WoqWeightDtype.NF4,
+            input_shape, # weight shape
+            absmax.view(input_shape[0], input_shape[1] // blocksize), # scales
+            None, # zero_points
+            None, # bias
+            None, # g_idx
+            None, # batch_size
+            blocksize,
+            int(ipex_cpu.quantization.WoqLowpMode.BF16),
+            -1, # act_quant_mode
+        )
+
+    return out, state
+
+
+@_maybe_torch_compile
+def dequantize_4bit_impl(
+    A: Tensor,
+    quant_state = None,
+    absmax: Tensor = None,
+    out: Tensor = None,
+    blocksize: int = 64,
+    quant_type="nf4",
+) -> Tensor:
+    """
+    Dequantizes FP4 blockwise quantized values.
+
+    Dequantizes the tensor A with maximum absolute values absmax in blocks of size blocksize.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    A : torch.Tensor
+        The input 8-bit tensor (packed 4-bit values).
+    quant_state : QuantState
+        object with quantisation stats, incl. absmax values, original tensor shape and original dtype.
+    absmax : torch.Tensor
+        The absmax values.
+    out : torch.Tensor
+        Dequantized output tensor.
+    blocksize : int
+        The blocksize used in quantization.
+    quant_type : str
+        The 4-bit quantization data type {fp4, nf4}, only nf4 is supported now
+
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    torch.Tensor:
+        Dequantized tensor.
+    """
+
+    if quant_state is None:
+        assert absmax is not None and out is not None
+
+        quant_state = QuantState(
+            absmax=absmax,
+            shape=out.shape,
+            dtype=out.dtype,
+            blocksize=blocksize,
+            quant_type=quant_type,
+        )
+
+    else:
+        absmax = quant_state.absmax
+
+    if quant_state.quant_type != "nf4":
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            f"4-bit quantization data type {quant_state.quant_type} is not implemented for CPU/XPU."
+        )
+
+    if quant_state.nested:
+        raise NotImplementedError("bnb_4bit_use_double_quant is not supported yet for CPU/XPU")
+
+    if out is None:
+        out = torch.empty(
+            quant_state.shape, dtype=quant_state.dtype, device=A.device
+        )
+
+    n = out.numel()
+    # Map nf4 to [-1, 1]
+    out_uint8 = torch.empty(A.size(0) * 2, dtype=torch.uint8, device=A.device)
+    out_uint8[::2] = A.bitwise_and(0xF)
+    out_uint8[1::2] = A.bitwise_right_shift(4)
+    out_dq = torch.empty(out_uint8.shape).to(quant_state.dtype)
+    for i in range(len(quant_state.code)):
+        out_dq[out_uint8 == i] = quant_state.code[i]
+
+    # Apply scales
+    if out_dq.numel() != n:
+        assert out_dq.numel() == n + 1
+        out_dq = torch.narrow(out_dq, 0, 0, n)
+    blocks = n // blocksize
+    blocks += 1 if n % blocksize > 0 else 0
+    rem = n % blocksize
+    has_rem = rem > 0
+    out_reshaped = out.reshape(-1)
+    out_reshaped[:n - rem] = (out_dq[:n - rem].view(-1, blocksize) * absmax[:blocks - has_rem].view(-1, 1)).reshape(-1)
+    if has_rem:
+        out_reshaped[n - rem:] = out_dq[n - rem:] * absmax[-1]
+
+    # take transpose here because weight is transposed (again) for computation
+    return out.t()
+
+
+# Do not need torch.compile here as we are calling torch/ipex kernel
+def gemm_4bit_impl(
+    A: torch.Tensor,
+    B: torch.Tensor,
+    out: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    transposed_A=False,
+    transposed_B=False,
+    state: QuantState = None,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """
+    Matrix-matrix multiplication with 4-bit quantization.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    A : torch.Tensor
+        The first input tensor. Usually the activation tensor.
+    B : torch.Tensor
+        The second input tensor. Usually the weight tensor.
+    out : torch.Tensor
+        The output tensor.
+    transposed_A : bool
+        Whether A is transposed
+    transposed_B : bool
+        Whether B is transposed
+    state : QuantState
+        Contains quantization info, such as blocksize and dtype
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    torch.Tensor:
+        GEMM output tensor.
+    """
+    if ipex_cpu and _ipex_cpu_version_prereq(2, 2) and hasattr(state, "op_context"):
+        assert state.op_context is not None
+        output = torch.ops.torch_ipex.ipex_woq_linear(A, state.op_context.get_data_handle())
+    else:
+        dqB = dequantize_4bit_impl(B, state, blocksize=state.blocksize)
+        output = torch.matmul(A, dqB)
+    if out is not None:
+        out.copy_(output)
+    else:
+        out = output
+    return out

bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py

@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ def from_prequantized(
         return self
 
     def _quantize(self, device):
-        w = self.data.contiguous().cuda(device)
+        w = self.data.contiguous().to(device)
         w_4bit, quant_state = bnb.functional.quantize_4bit(
             w,
             blocksize=self.blocksize,
@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ def _quantize(self, device):
     def cuda(self, device: Optional[Union[int, device, str]] = None, non_blocking: bool = False):
         return self.to(device="cuda" if device is None else device, non_blocking=non_blocking)
 
+    def cpu(self, non_blocking: bool = False):
+        return self.to(device="cpu", non_blocking=non_blocking)
+
     @overload
     def to(
         self: T,
@@ -320,7 +323,7 @@ def to(self: T, tensor: Tensor, non_blocking: bool = ...) -> T: ...
     def to(self, *args, **kwargs):
         device, dtype, non_blocking, convert_to_format = torch._C._nn._parse_to(*args, **kwargs)
 
-        if device is not None and device.type == "cuda" and not self.bnb_quantized:
+        if device is not None and device.type in ["cuda", "cpu"] and not self.bnb_quantized:
             return self._quantize(device)
         else:
             if self.quant_state is not None: