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Developed byMIT Han Lab
LicenseMIT License
Open source✓ Open Source
Use case4-bit quantization of large language models
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AWQ

concept

Activation-aware Weight Quantization method for efficient 4-bit quantization of LLMs preserving important weights.

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2023○UnverifiedHighFresh1

full name

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Activation-aware Weight Quantization○UnverifiedHighFresh1

quantization bits

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4-bit○UnverifiedHighFresh1

primary use case

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4-bit quantization of large language models○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Large Language Model Quantization○UnverifiedHighFresh1

developed by

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MIT Han Lab○UnverifiedHighFresh1
MIT○UnverifiedHighFresh1

open source

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true○UnverifiedHighFresh1

implemented by

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supports model

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LLaMA○UnverifiedHighFresh1
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alternative to

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license type

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MIT License○UnverifiedHighFresh1

integrates with

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PyTorch○UnverifiedHighFresh1
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vLLM○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

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Commonly Used With

PyTorchHugging Face TransformersvLLM

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