This is a copy of the original BLOOM weights that is more efficient to use with the DeepSpeed-MII and DeepSpeed-Inference. In this repo the original tensors are split into 8 shards to target 8 GPUs, this allows the user to run the model with DeepSpeed-inference Tensor Parallelism.
For specific details about the BLOOM model itself, please see the original BLOOM model card.
For examples on using this repo please see the following:

• https://github.com/huggingface/transformers-bloom-inference
• https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII