OpusMT-En-Zh: Optimized for Qualcomm Devices
OpusMT English to Chinese translation model is a state-of-the-art neural machine translation system designed for translating English text into Chinese. This model is based on the Marian transformer architecture and has been optimized for edge inference by splitting into encoder and decoder components with modified attention mechanisms. It exhibits robust performance for real-world translation tasks, making it highly reliable for practical applications. The model supports input sequences up to 256 tokens and can generate Chinese translations with high accuracy.
This is based on the implementation of OpusMT-En-Zh found here. This repository contains pre-exported model files optimized for Qualcomm® devices. You can use the Qualcomm® AI Hub Models library to export with custom configurations. More details on model performance across various devices, can be found here.
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Getting Started
There are two ways to deploy this model on your device:
Option 1: Download Pre-Exported Models
Below are pre-exported model assets ready for deployment.
| Runtime | Precision | Chipset | SDK Versions | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_qcs8450_proxy | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_qcs8550_proxy | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_qcs9075 | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_sa7255p | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_sa8295p | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_sa8775p | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_snapdragon_8_elite_for_galaxy | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_snapdragon_8_elite_gen5 | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_snapdragon_8gen3 | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_snapdragon_x2_elite | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
| QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | qualcomm_snapdragon_x_elite | QAIRT 2.43 | Download |
For more device-specific assets and performance metrics, visit OpusMT-En-Zh on Qualcomm® AI Hub.
Option 2: Export with Custom Configurations
Use the Qualcomm® AI Hub Models Python library to compile and export the model with your own:
- Custom weights (e.g., fine-tuned checkpoints)
- Custom input shapes
- Target device and runtime configurations
This option is ideal if you need to customize the model beyond the default configuration provided here.
See our repository for OpusMT-En-Zh on GitHub for usage instructions.
Model Details
Model Type: Model_use_case.text_generation
Model Stats:
- Model checkpoint: Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-zh
- Input resolution: 256 tokens (English text)
- Max input sequence length: 256 tokens
- Max output sequence length: 256 tokens
- Number of parameters (encoder): ~74M
- Model size (encoder) (float): ~280 MB
- Number of parameters (decoder): ~74M
- Model size (decoder) (float): ~280 MB
- Number of encoder layers: 6
- Number of decoder layers: 6
- Attention heads: 8
- Hidden dimension: 512
Performance Summary
| Model | Runtime | Precision | Chipset | Inference Time (ms) | Peak Memory Range (MB) | Primary Compute Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| decoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile | 2.169 ms | 1 - 11 MB | NPU |
| decoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® X2 Elite | 1.771 ms | 160 - 160 MB | NPU |
| decoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® X Elite | 3.162 ms | 159 - 159 MB | NPU |
| decoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | 2.692 ms | 0 - 7 MB | NPU |
| decoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | 3.434 ms | 12 - 14 MB | NPU |
| decoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Qualcomm® QCS9075 | 3.961 ms | 12 - 27 MB | NPU |
| decoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile | 2.327 ms | 0 - 11 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile | 2.171 ms | 1 - 11 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® X2 Elite | 2.311 ms | 12 - 12 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® X Elite | 3.172 ms | 12 - 12 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | 2.878 ms | 12 - 20 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) | 6.689 ms | 12 - 20 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | 3.451 ms | 12 - 14 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® SA8775P | 4.255 ms | 12 - 20 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® QCS9075 | 3.967 ms | 12 - 26 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) | 4.813 ms | 12 - 21 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® SA7255P | 6.689 ms | 12 - 20 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® SA8295P | 4.881 ms | 10 - 16 MB | NPU |
| decoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile | 2.559 ms | 0 - 9 MB | NPU |
| encoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile | 1.769 ms | 0 - 10 MB | NPU |
| encoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® X2 Elite | 1.863 ms | 107 - 107 MB | NPU |
| encoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® X Elite | 3.975 ms | 107 - 107 MB | NPU |
| encoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | 2.659 ms | 0 - 8 MB | NPU |
| encoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | 3.759 ms | 0 - 113 MB | NPU |
| encoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Qualcomm® QCS9075 | 4.692 ms | 15 - 18 MB | NPU |
| encoder | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | float | Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile | 2.28 ms | 0 - 11 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile | 1.751 ms | 0 - 10 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® X2 Elite | 2.189 ms | 0 - 0 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® X Elite | 3.968 ms | 0 - 0 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | 2.643 ms | 0 - 7 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) | 12.724 ms | 0 - 7 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | 3.633 ms | 0 - 1 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® SA8775P | 4.744 ms | 0 - 9 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® QCS9075 | 4.59 ms | 0 - 8 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) | 4.987 ms | 0 - 9 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® SA7255P | 12.724 ms | 0 - 7 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Qualcomm® SA8295P | 5.485 ms | 0 - 5 MB | NPU |
| encoder | QNN_CONTEXT_BINARY | float | Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile | 2.231 ms | 0 - 9 MB | NPU |
License
- The license for the original implementation of OpusMT-En-Zh can be found here.
References
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