Llama-2-7b-HiCI-16k-SFT

Model Description

This is a HiCI instruction-following (SFT) adapter checkpoint for Llama-2-7B, extending its context window to 16K tokens and fine-tuned on LongAlpaca-12k for instruction following.

It was produced in two stages:

1. HiCI pre-training on RedPajama at 16K context (adapter: Llama-2-7b-hici-16k-none-8Gpus)
2. Supervised fine-tuning on LongAlpaca-12k, resuming from the pre-training checkpoint

The adapter contains three components: LoRA adapters (q/k/v/o_proj), HiCI module weights (LocalConstructor + GlobalIntegrator), and fine-tuned embedding + LayerNorm weights.

Paper: HiCI (arXiv 2603.20843)

HiCI Architecture

Three-stage hierarchy per transformer layer:

1. Local Construction — M learnable query slots attend to each segment via bottleneck cross-attention → local summary L_i
2. Global Integration — multi-view statistics (mean/max/min/std/ℓ2-norm) → shared compression → attention-based selection → gated expansion → G
3. Top-down Broadcast — per-segment attention with augmented KV=[G, L_i, segment tokens]; queries from segment tokens only

Input (16K tokens) → 4 segments × 4K
 Stage 1: 8 local slots per segment → L_i
 Stage 2: multi-view stats → K=4 global slots G
 Stage 3: Q=[chunk], KV=[G, L_i, chunk] → Flash Attention

Trainable Components

adapter_model.bin (~28 MB)
└── LoRA Adapters (r=8, alpha=16): q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj

trainable_params.bin (~2 GB)
├── local_constructor.* — Local Construction modules (32 layers)
├── global_integrator.* — Global Integration modules (32 layers)
├── input_layernorm / post_attention_layernorm — LayerNorm weights (32 layers)
├── model.embed_tokens.weight — Token embeddings
└── model.norm.weight — Final LayerNorm

Training Details

Stage 1 — HiCI Pre-training (continued pre-training)

• Base Model: meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf
• Context Length: 16,384 tokens (16K)
• Dataset: RedPajama-Data-1T-Sample
• Steps: 1,000
• LR: 2e-5 (base), 2e-4 (HiCI modules)
• Hardware: 8× H100 80GB, DeepSpeed Stage 2

Stage 2 — SFT (instruction fine-tuning)

• Base Model: meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf
• Resumed from: Llama-2-7b-hici-16k pre-training checkpoint (step 1000)
• Context Length: 16,384 tokens (16K)
• Dataset: LongAlpaca-12k (12,000 long-context instruction samples)
• Epochs: 10 (max_steps=2,000)
• Segments: 4 × 4,096 tokens (fixed group size for irregular SFT sequence lengths)
• Local Representation Slots (M): 8 per segment
• Global Representation Slots (K): 4
• HiCI Attention Heads: 8, Bottleneck dim: 512, Shared compress dim: 128
• LoRA: r=8, alpha=16, target: q/k/v/o_proj
• Checkpoint: step 2,000
• Batch: per_device=1, grad_accum=8 (effective batch=8)
• LR: 2e-5 (base/LoRA), 2e-4 (HiCI modules), grad clip=0.3
• Precision: bf16
• Hardware: 8× H100 80GB, DeepSpeed Stage 2

Usage

Requires llama_attn_hici.py from the HiCI repo.

import torch
import transformers
from peft import PeftModel
import llama_attn_hici as hici_attn

# 1. Replace attention with HiCI BEFORE loading model
hici_attn.MIXED_GROUP_TRAINING = False
hici_attn.replace_llama_attn(use_flash_attn=True, use_full=False, use_hierarchical_forward=True)

# 2. Load base model
base_model = transformers.AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
 "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto",
)

# 3. Register HiCI modules (must match training config)
hici_attn.register_hici_to_model(base_model, num_memory_slots=8, global_slots=4, num_heads=8, bottleneck_dim=512)

# 4. Load LoRA adapter + HiCI weights
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_model, "ZengXiangyu/Llama-2-7b-HiCI-16k-SFT")

# 5. Tokenizer
tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ZengXiangyu/Llama-2-7b-HiCI-16k-SFT")

# 6. Inference — use Llama-2 instruction format
prompt = "[INST] <<SYS>>\nYou are a helpful assistant.\n<</SYS>>\n\n{user_question} [/INST]"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt.format(user_question="Summarize the following text: ..."),
 return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
with torch.no_grad():
 output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=512)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Citation

@article{zeng2026hici,
 title={HiCI: Hierarchical Construction-Integration for Long-Context Attention},
 author={Zeng, Xiangyu and Xu, Qi and Wang, Yunke and Xu, Chang},
 journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20843},
 year={2026}
}

License

This model follows the Llama 2 Community License.

Base model

meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf

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