hf_text-generation-inference/docs/source/reference
Daniël de Kok a785000842
Add initial support for compressed-tensors checkpoints (#2732)
compressed-tensors is a safetensors extension for sparse, quantized
tensors. The format is more powerful than earlier AWQ/GPTQ/FP8
quantization, because

- Different quantizer configurations can be used for different targets.
- The format can specify input/output quantizers in addition to weight
  quantizers.
- Configurable exclusions for quantization.

This change adds a dependency on the `compressed-tensors` package for
its configuration parsing and layer matching functionality.

The following types of quantization are supported in this PR:

- W8A16 and W4A16 INT using GPTQ-Marlin kernels.
- W8A8 and W8A16 FP using FP8-Marlin and cutlass kernels.

Support for other quantization types will be added in subsequent PRs.
2024-11-10 13:54:07 +01:00
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api_reference.md chore: prepare 2.4.0 release (#2695) 2024-10-25 21:10:49 +00:00
launcher.md Add initial support for compressed-tensors checkpoints (#2732) 2024-11-10 13:54:07 +01:00
metrics.md doc: Add metrics documentation and add a 'Reference' section (#2230) 2024-08-16 19:43:30 +02:00