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# TorchAO

[TorchAO](https://github.com/pytorch/ao) is an architecture optimization library for PyTorch, it provides high performance dtypes, optimization techniques and kernels for inference and training, featuring composability with native PyTorch features like `torch.compile`, FSDP etc.. Some benchmark numbers can be found [here](https://github.com/pytorch/ao/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#without-intrusive-code-changes)

Before you begin, make sure the following libraries are installed with their latest version:

```bash
pip install --upgrade torch torchao
```


```py
from transformers import TorchAoConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B"
# We support int4_weight_only, int8_weight_only and int8_dynamic_activation_int8_weight
# More examples and documentations for arguments can be found in https://github.com/pytorch/ao/tree/main/torchao/quantization#other-available-quantization-techniques
quantization_config = TorchAoConfig("int4_weight_only", group_size=128)
quantized_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, device_map="auto", quantization_config=quantization_config)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
input_text = "What are we having for dinner?"
input_ids = tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")

# compile the quantized model to get speedup
import torchao
torchao.quantization.utils.recommended_inductor_config_setter()
quantized_model = torch.compile(quantized_model, mode="max-autotune")

output = quantized_model.generate(**input_ids, max_new_tokens=10)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```

torchao quantization is implemented with tensor subclasses, currently it does not work with huggingface serialization, both the safetensor option and [non-safetensor option](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/32364), we'll update here with instructions when it's working.