AI BriefingIntel-Hugging Face, Model Acceleration Collaboration
Key point
Intel and Hugging Face have partnered to release the Optimum Intel library, which supports hardware acceleration for Transformer models.
Details
Hugging Face and Intel have entered into an official partnership through the Hardware Partner Program. The two companies are collaborating through the Optimum Intel open-source library to optimize training, fine-tuning, and inference performance for Transformer models.
Optimum Intel is built on Intel Neural Compressor (INC) and provides the following features:
- Application of state-of-the-art optimization techniques such as Quantization, Pruning, and Knowledge Distillation
- Support for Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs and Habana Gaudi accelerators
- Optimal performance with minimal changes to existing code
In particular, a post-training quantization case study targeting the DistilBERT model demonstrates that memory and computational requirements can be reduced while maintaining high performance.
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