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+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+"""
+Create a quantized `meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct` model and save
+it to disk for local benchmarking with `vllm`.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import random
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TorchAoConfig
+
+from torchao.prototype.mx_formats.inference_workflow import (
+    MXDynamicActivationMXWeightConfig,
+)
+
+
+# Set seeds for reproducibility
+def set_seed(seed):
+    random.seed(seed)
+    np.random.seed(seed)
+    torch.manual_seed(seed)
+    torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(seed)
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Quantize a model with TorchAO")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "output_dir",
+        type=str,
+        help="Directory to save the quantized model",
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main(args):
+    """
+    Args:
+        args: Parsed command line arguments containing:
+            output_dir: Directory to save the quantized model
+            max_new_tokens: Max tokens to generate for testing
+            convert_llama_4_expert_weights_to_mnk: if True, converts LLaMa 4 Scout expert weights from MKN to MNK memory layout
+            no_save_model_to_disk: if True, skips saving quantized model to local disk
+            no_load_model_from_disk: if True, skips reloading model from disk to test it again
+    """
+
+    model_name = "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct"
+    device_map = "auto"
+    max_new_tokens = 20
+
+    # Test prompts
+    prompts = [
+        "Why is Pytorch 2.0 the best machine learning compiler?",
+    ]
+
+    # Set seed before creating the model
+    set_seed(42)
+
+    # Create output directory
+    output_dir = Path(args.output_dir)
+    output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    # Get quantization config
+    # quantization_config = TorchAoConfig(Float8DynamicActivationFloat8WeightConfig())
+    quantization_config = TorchAoConfig(
+        MXDynamicActivationMXWeightConfig(
+            activation_dtype=torch.float8_e4m3fn,
+            weight_dtype=torch.float8_e4m3fn,
+        )
+    )
+
+    # Load tokenizer
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
+
+    # Load and quantize model
+    print("Loading and quantizing model...")
+    quantized_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+        model_name,
+        torch_dtype="bfloat16",
+        device_map=device_map,
+        quantization_config=quantization_config,
+    )
+    print(quantized_model)
+
+    if False:
+        # Test generation
+        print("\nTesting quantized model generation...")
+        input_ids = tokenizer(prompts, return_tensors="pt", padding=False).to(
+            quantized_model.device
+        )
+        outputs = quantized_model.generate(**input_ids, max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens)
+
+        for i, (prompt, output) in enumerate(zip(prompts, outputs, strict=False)):
+            generated_text = tokenizer.decode(output, skip_special_tokens=True)
+            print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
+
+    # Save quantized model
+    print(f"\nSaving quantized model to: {output_dir}")
+    quantized_model.save_pretrained(
+        output_dir,
+        safe_serialization=False,
+    )
+    tokenizer.save_pretrained(output_dir)
+
+    if False:
+        # Load saved model to verify
+        # TODO: do we really need `weights_only=False` here?
+        loaded_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+            output_dir,
+            device_map=device_map,
+            torch_dtype="auto",
+            weights_only=False,
+        )
+
+        # Test loaded model with first prompt
+        test_prompt = prompts[0]
+        input_ids = tokenizer(test_prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(loaded_model.device)
+        output = loaded_model.generate(**input_ids, max_new_tokens=args.max_new_tokens)
+        generated_text = tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
+        print(
+            f"Verification - Prompt: {test_prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}"
+        )
+
+    print("\nQuantization process completed successfully.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    args = parse_args()
+    main(args)