AutoRound

Introducing AutoRound: Intel's Advanced Quantization for LLMs and VLMs

Intel has released AutoRound, an advanced quantization technique for large language models and vision-language models, announced via the Hugging Face blog. AutoRound targets efficient low-bit quantization to reduce model size and inference costs while preserving accuracy. The tool is positioned as a production-ready quantization solution integrated with the Hugging Face ecosystem.