Quantization techniques reduce memory and computational costs by representing weights and activations with lower-precision data types like 8-bit integers (int8). This enables loading larger models you normally wouldn't be able to fit into memory, and speeding up inference.
Tip
Learn how to quantize models in the Quantization guide.
[[autodoc]] quantizers.PipelineQuantizationConfig
[[autodoc]] quantizers.quantization_config.BitsAndBytesConfig
[[autodoc]] quantizers.quantization_config.GGUFQuantizationConfig
[[autodoc]] quantizers.quantization_config.QuantoConfig
[[autodoc]] quantizers.quantization_config.TorchAoConfig
[[autodoc]] quantizers.base.DiffusersQuantizer