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Developed byHugging Face
LicenseMIT License
Open source✓ Open Source
Primary languagePython
Use caseneural network quantization
Technical
Protocols
QLoRA
Integrates with
PyTorchTransformers
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FP16 training
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BitsAndBytes

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Library for 8-bit and 4-bit quantization of neural networks to reduce memory usage

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supports quantization

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primary use case

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