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| license: apache-2.0 |
| tags: |
| - bigsmall |
| - compression |
| - lossless |
| - mistral |
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| |
| # Mistral 7B Instruct (BigSmall compressed) |
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| **14 GB → 9.3 GB. Under 2 GB peak RAM. Full quality — not quantization.** |
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| This is Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 compressed with [BigSmall](https://github.com/wpferrell/Bigsmall) — lossless neural network weight compression. Every weight is bit-identical to the original. No accuracy loss whatsoever. |
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| ## Install |
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| ```bash |
| pip install bigsmall |
| ``` |
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| ## Load and run inference (streaming — under 2GB peak RAM) |
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| ```python |
| from bigsmall import StreamingLoader |
| from transformers import MistralForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer |
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| # Streams one layer at a time — 9.3GB download, under 2GB peak RAM |
| loader = StreamingLoader("wpferrell/mistral-7b-instruct-bigsmall") |
| model = loader.load_model(MistralForCausalLM) |
| tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3") |
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| messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain lossless compression in one paragraph."}] |
| inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt") |
| outputs = model.generate(inputs, max_new_tokens=200) |
| print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0])) |
| ``` |
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| ## Or decompress to disk first |
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| ```python |
| from bigsmall import from_pretrained |
| from transformers import MistralForCausalLM |
| model = from_pretrained("wpferrell/mistral-7b-instruct-bigsmall", model_class=MistralForCausalLM) |
| ``` |
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| ## Compression stats |
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| | Metric | Value | |
| |--------|-------| |
| | Original size | 14.2 GB | |
| | Compressed size | 9.3 GB | |
| | Ratio | 65.6% (BF16) | |
| | Format | BF16 → BigSmall (.bs shards) | |
| | Lossless verified | md5 every tensor | |
| | Peak RAM (streaming) | < 2 GB | |
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| ## Comparison |
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| | Tool | BF16 Ratio | FP32 Ratio | Inference Overhead | Hardware | |
| |------|------------|------------|-------------------|---------| |
| | [ZipNN](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05239) | 67% | 83% | None | CPU | |
| | [DFloat11](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11651) | ~70% | BF16 only | ~2x at batch=1 | CUDA only | |
| | [ZipServ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17435) | ~70% | BF16 only | 1.22x faster | GDDR GPU | |
| | **BigSmall** | **65.6%** | **75.5%** | **None** | **CPU + any GPU** | |
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| *Lower ratio = better compression.* |
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| ## About BigSmall |
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| BigSmall compresses at the joint entropy floor for neural network weights. It codes sign+exponent jointly and mantissa conditioned on exponent, achieving the information-theoretic minimum. The streaming loader decompresses one transformer layer at a time directly into VRAM — making 7B+ models accessible on hardware that couldn't otherwise load them. |
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| - GitHub: [wpferrell/Bigsmall](https://github.com/wpferrell/Bigsmall) |
| - PyPI: `pip install bigsmall` |
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