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NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer
About the project
Accepts models in Hugging Face, PyTorch, and ONNX formats and applies optimization techniques such as quantization, pruning, and distillation. It automates complex processes via a Python API and generates checkpoints ready for immediate deployment in TensorRT-LLM or vLLM.
A representative case involves compressing the Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B model with NVFP4, achieving 5.9x higher inference throughput compared to BF16. For the Qwen3.6-35B model, it reduces checkpoint size by 3.1x while improving vLLM processing speed by 1.3x, simultaneously addressing memory overhead and latency in large language models.
It provides Quantization-Aware Distillation (QAD) and automatic mixed-precision assignment to recover accuracy loss after quantization. Integrated with NVIDIA Megatron-Bridge and Hugging Face Accelerate, it enables a single workflow from training to inference optimization.
NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer
A unified library of SOTA model optimization techniques like quantization, distillation, pruning, neural architecture search, speculative decoding, etc. It compresses deep learning models for downstream deployment frameworks like TensorRT-LLM, TensorRT, vLLM, etc. to optimize inference speed.
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