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title: Quantization
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Quantization trades off model precision for smaller memory footprint, allowing large models to be run on a wider range of devices.

Contents:

- [Supported Hardware](supported_hardware.md)
- [AutoAWQ](auto_awq.md)
- [BitsAndBytes](bnb.md)
- [BitBLAS](bitblas.md)
- [GGUF](gguf.md)
- [GPTQModel](gptqmodel.md)
- [INT4 W4A16](int4.md)
- [INT8 W8A8](int8.md)
- [FP8 W8A8](fp8.md)
- [NVIDIA TensorRT Model Optimizer](modelopt.md)
- [AMD Quark](quark.md)
- [Quantized KV Cache](quantized_kvcache.md)
- [TorchAO](torchao.md)