Using LoRA adapters#

This document shows you how to use LoRA adapters with vLLM on top of a base model.

LoRA adapters can be used with any vLLM model that implements SupportsLoRA.

Adapters can be efficiently served on a per request basis with minimal overhead. First we download the adapter(s) and save them locally with

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

sql_lora_path = snapshot_download(repo_id="yard1/llama-2-7b-sql-lora-test")

Then we instantiate the base model and pass in the enable_lora=True flag:

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest

llm = LLM(model="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf", enable_lora=True)

We can now submit the prompts and call llm.generate with the lora_request parameter. The first parameter of LoRARequest is a human identifiable name, the second parameter is a globally unique ID for the adapter and the third parameter is the path to the LoRA adapter.

sampling_params = SamplingParams(
    temperature=0,
    max_tokens=256,
    stop=["[/assistant]"]
)

prompts = [
     "[user] Write a SQL query to answer the question based on the table schema.\n\n context: CREATE TABLE table_name_74 (icao VARCHAR, airport VARCHAR)\n\n question: Name the ICAO for lilongwe international airport [/user] [assistant]",
     "[user] Write a SQL query to answer the question based on the table schema.\n\n context: CREATE TABLE table_name_11 (nationality VARCHAR, elector VARCHAR)\n\n question: When Anchero Pantaleone was the elector what is under nationality? [/user] [assistant]",
]

outputs = llm.generate(
    prompts,
    sampling_params,
    lora_request=LoRARequest("sql_adapter", 1, sql_lora_path)
)

Check out examples/multilora_inference.py for an example of how to use LoRA adapters with the async engine and how to use more advanced configuration options.

Serving LoRA Adapters#

LoRA adapted models can also be served with the Open-AI compatible vLLM server. To do so, we use --lora-modules {name}={path} {name}={path} to specify each LoRA module when we kickoff the server:

vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf \
    --enable-lora \
    --lora-modules sql-lora=$HOME/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--yard1--llama-2-7b-sql-lora-test/snapshots/0dfa347e8877a4d4ed19ee56c140fa518470028c/

Note

The commit ID 0dfa347e8877a4d4ed19ee56c140fa518470028c may change over time. Please check the latest commit ID in your environment to ensure you are using the correct one.

The server entrypoint accepts all other LoRA configuration parameters (max_loras, max_lora_rank, max_cpu_loras, etc.), which will apply to all forthcoming requests. Upon querying the /models endpoint, we should see our LoRA along with its base model:

curl localhost:8000/v1/models | jq .
{
    "object": "list",
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf",
            "object": "model",
            ...
        },
        {
            "id": "sql-lora",
            "object": "model",
            ...
        }
    ]
}

Requests can specify the LoRA adapter as if it were any other model via the model request parameter. The requests will be processed according to the server-wide LoRA configuration (i.e. in parallel with base model requests, and potentially other LoRA adapter requests if they were provided and max_loras is set high enough).

The following is an example request

curl http://localhost:8000/v1/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "sql-lora",
        "prompt": "San Francisco is a",
        "max_tokens": 7,
        "temperature": 0
    }' | jq

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