Do you want to quantize on a CPU, GPU, or Apple silicon? In short, supporting a wide range of quantization methods allows you to pick the best quantization ...

Quantization techniques reduce memory and computational costs by representing weights and activations with lower-precision data types like 8-bit integers (int8) ... GPTQConfig · BitsAndBytesConfig · HfQuantizer

18 июл. 2023 г. · hello, is it possible to run inference of quantized 8 bit or 4 bit models on cpu?

27 апр. 2023 г. · I want a script that forces the use of CPU, that loads BloomZ from a local repo folder and that quantizes the model to 8-bit while loading to ...

Note that you will need a GPU to quantize a model. We will put the model in the cpu and move the modules back and forth to the gpu in order to quantize them. ...

20 авг. 2023 г. · This feature is beneficial for users who need to fit large models and distribute them between the GPU and CPU. Adjusting Outlier Threshold.

For 8-bit quantization, the selected modules will be converted to 8-bit precision. For 4-bit quantization, the selected modules will be kept in torch_dtype ...

7 дек. 2023 г. · I'd like to quantize some of the text generation models available on HuggingFace to 4bits. I'd like to be able to use these models in a no-GPU setup.

21 янв. 2024 г. · I tried to quantize a 30B model with device_map='auto' , but the gpu memory utilizaiton isn't balanced on all the GPUs during quantizing model.layers blocks ...

If you have an Intel CPU, take a look at Optimum Intel which supports a variety of compression techniques (quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation) and ...