Slowdown between GPT4All-Chat 3.0 and GPT4All-Chat 3.1

[ThiloteE]

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Bug Report

There was a noticeable slowdown of doing inference on LLMs. Something like 30-40% less tokens / second. This change affected both CPU, Cuda and Vulkan backends. This regression still has not been fixed GPT4All-Chat 3.2.1

Steps to Reproduce

Upgrade from GPT4All-Chat 3.0 to GPT4All-Chat 3.1

Expected Behavior

No slowdown.

Your Environment

• GPT4All version: 3.2.1
• Operating System: Windows 10
• Chat model used (if applicable): For example llama-3-8b-instruct, but happens to all models, e.g. mistral-7b or phi-3-mini-instruct

Hypothesis for root cause

Here is the changelog for version 3.1: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/releases/tag/v3.1.0

I highly suspect updating llama.cpp at https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2694 introduced this regression, but who knows. Would need to do a git bisect.

[3Simplex]

I ran a small test on an instruction set over the versions seen in this image. Using temp 0.001 to avoid potential Temp-0 problem.

I found the response itself changes in these 3 versions. 2.7.5, 2.8.0, 3.1.0 when using CPU.

• I was only talking about the generated responses, not speed here.

The following is a report on speed variance for each version. I took the fastest reported speed on a single prompt regenerated a few times.

• In version 2.7.5 the speed response was Vulkan GPU 45t/s then CPU 10t/s
• In version 2.8.0 the speed response was Vulkan GPU 42t/s then CPU 9t/s
• In version 3.0.0 the speed response was Vulkan GPU 41t/s then CPU 9.8t/s
• In version 3.1.0 the speed response was Vulkan GPU 42t/s then CPU 9.2t/s
• In version 3.1.1 the speed response was Vulkan GPU 41t/s then CPU 9.3t/s
• In version 3.2.1 the speed response was Vulkan GPU 38t/s then CPU 9.7t/s

[ThiloteE]

What model? Maybe it is model related after all. Partial offloading or full offloading? If it is GPU, I usually offload 19 layers partially.

I will do more precise testing later.

[3Simplex]

I was using the known good model, Llama 3 8b instruct. I used all layers on GPU. I used 8k context since that is the limit of the model. I don't like to offload, for me using CPU will usually work better if the model is too big for the GPU.