- Highlights
- Features
- Improvements
- Validated Hardware
- Validated Configurations
Highlights
- Aligned with Habana 1.18 release with the improvements on FP8 and INT4 quantization for Intel® Gaudi® AI accelerator
- Provided for weight-only quantization on LLM, which offers transformer-based user one-stop experience for quantization & inference with IPEX on Intel GPU and CPU.
Features
- Add Transformer-like quantization API for weight-only quantization on LLM
- Support fast quantization with light weight recipe and layer-wise approach on Intel AI PC
- Support INT4 quantization of Visual Language Model (VLM), like Llava, Phi-3-vision, Qwen-VL with AutoRound algorithm
Improvements
- Support AWQ format INT4 model loading and converting for IPEX inference in Transformer-like API
- Enable auto-round format export for INT4 model
- Support per-channel INT8 Post Training Quantization for PT2E
Validated Hardware
- Intel Gaudi Al Accelerators (Gaudi 2 and 3)
- Intel Xeon Scalable processor (4th, 5th, 6th Gen)
- Intel Core Ultra Processors (Series 1 and 2)
- Intel Data Center GPU Max Series (1100)
Validated Configurations
- Centos 8.4 & Ubuntu 22.04 & Win 11
- Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
- PyTorch/IPEX 2.2, 2.3, 2.4