gptqmodel 4.2.5
Production ready LLM model compression/quantization toolkit with hw accelerated inference support for both cpu/gpu via HF, vLLM, and SGLang.
License: Apache-2.0
Requires Python: >=3.9.0
Keywords: gptq, quantization, large-language-models, transformers, 4bit, llm

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<h1 align="center">GPT-QModel</h1>
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<p align="center">LLM model quantization (compression) toolkit with hw acceleration support for Nvidia CUDA, AMD ROCm, Intel XPU and Intel/AMD/Apple CPU via HF, vLLM, and SGLang.</p>
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## Latest News
* 09/16/2025 [4.2.5](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v4.2.5): `hyb_act` renamed to `act_group_aware`. Removed finicky `torch` import within `setup.py`. Packing bug fix and prebuilt Pytorch 2.8 whls. 
* 09/12/2025 [4.2.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v4.2.0): ✨ New Models Support: Qwen3-Next, Apertus, Kimi K2, Klear, FastLLM, Nemotron H. New `fail_safe` `boolean` toggle to `.quantize()` to patch-fix non-activated `MoE` modules due to highly uneven MoE model training. Fixed LavaQwen2 compat. Patch fix GIL=0 cuda error for multi-gpu. Fix compat with autoround + new transformers. 
* 09/04/2025 [4.1.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v4.1.0): ✨ Meituan LongCat Flash Chat, Llama 4, GPT-OSS (BF16), and GLM-4.5-Air support.  New experiemental `mock_quantization` config to skip complex computational code paths during quantization to accelerate model quant testing. 
* 08/21/2025 [4.0.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v4.0.0): 🎉 New Group Aware Reordering (GAR) support. New models support: Bytedance Seed-OSS, Baidu Ernie, Huawei PanGu, Gemma3, Xiaomi Mimo, Qwen 3/MoE, Falcon H1, GPT-Neo. Memory leak and multiple model compatibility fixes related to Transformers >= 4.54. Python >= 3.13t free-threading support added with near N x GPU linear scaling for quantization of MoE models and also linear N x Cpu Core scaling of packing stage. Early access Pytorch 2.8 fused-ops on Intel XPU for up to 50% speedup.
* 08/19/2025 4.0.0-dev `main`: Fix quantization memory usage due to some model's incorrect application of `config.use_cache` during inference. Fixed `Transformers` >= 4.54.0 compat which changed layer forward return signature for some models. 
* 08/18/2025 4.0.0-dev `main`: GPT-Neo model support. Memory leak fix in error capture (stacktrace) and fixed `lm_head` quantization compatibility for many models.
* 07/31/2025 4.0.0-dev `main`: New Group Aware Reordering (GAR) support and prelim Pytorch 2.8 fused-ops for Intel XPU for up to 50% speedup. 
* 07/03/2025 4.0.0-dev `main`: New Baidu Ernie and Huawei PanGu model support.

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* 07/02/2025 4.0.0-dev `main`: Gemma3 4B model compat fix.
* 05/29/2025 4.0.0-dev `main`: Falcon H1 model support. Fixed Transformers `4.52+` compat with Qwen 2.5 VL models.
* 05/19/2025 4.0.0-dev `main`: Qwen 2.5 Omni model support. 
* 05/05/2025 4.0.0-dev `main`: Python 3.13t free-threading support added with near N x GPU linear scaling for quantization of MoE models and also linear N x Cpu Core scaling of packing stage. 
* 04/29/2025 3.1.0-dev (Now 4.) `main`: Xiaomi Mimo model support. Qwen 3 and 3 MoE model support. New arg for `quantize(..., calibration_dataset_min_length=10)` to filter out bad calibration data that exists in public dataset (wikitext). 
* 04/13/2025 [3.0.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v3.0.0): 🎉 New experimental `GPTQ v2` quantization option for improved model quantization accuracy validated by `GSM8K_PLATINUM` [benchmarks](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel#quantization-using-gptq-v2) vs original `gptq`. New `Phi4-MultiModal` model support . New Nvidia Nemotron-Ultra model support. New `Dream` model support. New experimental `multi-gpu` quantization support. Reduced vram usage. Faster quantization.
* 04/2/2025 [2.2.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v2.2.0): New `Qwen 2.5 VL` model support. New `samples` log column during quantization to track module activation in MoE models. `Loss` log column now color-coded to highlight modules that are friendly/resistant to quantization. Progress (per-step) stats during quantization now streamed to log file. Auto `bfloat16`  dtype loading for models based on model config. Fix kernel compile for Pytorch/ROCm. Slightly faster quantization and auto-resolve some low-level oom issues for smaller vram gpus. 
* 03/12/2025 [2.1.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v2.1.0): ✨ New `QQQ` quantization method and inference support!
New Google `Gemma 3` zero-day model support.
New Alibaba `Ovis 2` VL model support. 
New AMD `Instella` zero-day model model support. New `GSM8K Platinum` and `MMLU-Pro` benchmarking suppport.
Peft Lora training with GPTQModel is now 30%+ faster on all gpu and IPEX devices.
Auto detect MoE modules not activated during quantization due to insufficient calibration data. 
`ROCm` `setup.py` compat fixes. `Optimum` and `Peft` compat fixes.
Fixed `Peft` `bfloat16` training. 
* 03/03/2025 [2.0.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v2.0.0): 🎉 `GPTQ` quantization internals are now broken into multiple stages (processes) for feature expansion. 
Synced `Marlin` kernel inference quality fix from upstream. Added `MARLIN_FP16`, lower-quality but faster backend. 
`ModelScope` support added. Logging and cli progress bar output has been revamped with sticky bottom progress.
Fixed `generation_config.json` save and load. Fixed Transformers v4.49.0 compat. Fixed compat of models without `bos`. Fixed `group_size=-1` and `bits=3` packing regression. 
Fixed Qwen 2.5 MoE regressions. 
Added CI tests to track regression in kernel inference quality and sweep all bits/group_sizes. Delegate loggin/progressbar to [LogBar](https://github.com/modelcloud/logbar) pkg.
Fix ROCm version auto detection in `setup` install.
* 02/12/2025 [1.9.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.9.0): ⚡ Offload `tokenizer` fixes to [Toke(n)icer](https://github.com/modelcloud/tokenicer) pkg. Optimized `lm_head` quant time and vram usage.
  Optimized `DeepSeek v3/R1` model quant vram usage. Fixed `Optimum` compat regresion in `v1.8.1`. 3x speed-up for `Torch` kernel when using Pytorch >= 2.5.0 with `model.optimize()`. New `calibration_dataset_concat_size` option to enable calibration data `concat` mode to mimic original GPTQ data packing strategy which may improve quant speed and accuracy for datasets like `wikitext2`. 
* 02/08/2025 [1.8.1](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.8.1): ⚡ `DeepSeek v3/R1` model support. New flexible weight `packing`: allow quantized weights to be packed to `[int32, int16, int8]` dtypes. 
`Triton` and `Torch` kernels supports full range of new `QuantizeConfig.pack_dtype`. 
New `auto_gc: bool` control in `quantize()` which can reduce quantization time for small model with no chance of oom. 
New `GPTQModel.push_to_hub()` api for easy quant model upload to HF repo. New `buffered_fwd: bool` control in `model.quantize()`. Over 50% quantization speed-up for visual (vl) models.  
Fixed `bits=3` packing and `group_size=-1` regression in v1.7.4.
* 01/26/2025 [1.7.4](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.7.4): New `compile()` api for ~4-8% inference tps improvement. Faster `pack()` for post-quantiztion model save. `Triton` kernel validated for Intel/`XPU` when Intel Triton packages are installed. Fixed Transformers (bug) downcasting tokenizer class on save. 
* 01/20/2025 [1.7.3](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.7.3): New Telechat2 (China Telecom) and PhiMoE model support. Fixed `lm_head` weights duplicated in post-quantize save() for models with tied-embedding. 
* 01/19/2025 [1.7.2](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.7.2): Effective BPW (bits per weight) will now be logged during `load()`. Reduce loading time on Intel Arc A770/B580 `XPU` by 3.3x. Reduce memory usage in MLX conversion and fix Marlin kernel auto-select not checking CUDA compute version. 
* 01/17/2025 [1.7.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.7.0): 👀 ✨ `backend.MLX` added for runtime-conversion and execution of GPTQ models on Apple's `MLX` framework on Apple Silicon (M1+). Exports of `gptq` models to `mlx` also now possible. We have added `mlx` exported models to [huggingface.co/ModelCloud](https://huggingface.co/collections/ModelCloud/vortex-673743382af0a52b2a8b9fe2). ✨ `lm_head` quantization now fully support by GPTQModel without external pkg dependency. 
* 01/07/2025 [1.6.1](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.6.1): 🎉 New OpenAI api compatible end-point via `model.serve(host, port)`. Auto-enable flash-attention2 for inference.  Fixed `sym=False` loading regression. 
* 01/06/2025 [1.6.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.6.0): ⚡25% faster quantization. 35% reduction in vram usage vs v1.5. 👀 AMD ROCm (6.2+) support added and validated for 7900XT+ GPU. Auto-tokenizer loader via `load()` api. For most models you no longer need to manually init a tokenizer for both inference and quantization.
* 01/01/2025 [1.5.1](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.5.1): 🎉 2025! Added `QuantizeConfig.device` to clearly define which device is used for quantization: default = `auto`. Non-quantized models are always loaded on cpu by-default and each layer is moved to `QuantizeConfig.device` during quantization to minimize vram usage. Compatibility fixes for `attn_implementation_autoset` in latest transformers. 

* 12/23/2024 [1.5.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.5.0): Multi-modal (image-to-text) optimized quantization support has been added for Qwen 2-VL and Ovis 1.6-VL. Previous image-to-text model quantizations did not use image calibration data, resulting in less than optimal post-quantization results. Version 1.5.0 is the first release to provide a stable path for multi-modal quantization: only text layers are quantized.
* 12/19/2024 [1.4.5](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.4.5): Windows 11 support added/validated. Ovis VL model support with image dataset calibration. Fixed `dynamic` loading. Reduced quantization vram usage.
* 12/15/2024 [1.4.2](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.4.2): MacOS `gpu` (Metal) and `cpu` (M+) support added/validated for inference and quantization. Cohere 2 model support added. 
* 12/13/2024 [1.4.1](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.4.1): Added Qwen2-VL model support. `mse` quantization control exposed in `QuantizeConfig`. Monkey patch `patch_vllm()` and `patch_hf()` api added to allow Transformers/Optimum/PEFT and vLLM to correctly loaded GPTQModel quantized models while upstream PRs are in pending status. 
* 12/10/2024 [1.4.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.4.0) `EvalPlus` harness integration merged upstream. We now support both `lm-eval` and `EvalPlus`. Added pure torch `Torch` kernel. Refactored `Cuda` kernel to be `DynamicCuda` kernel. `Triton` kernel now auto-padded for max model support. `Dynamic` quantization now supports both positive `+:`:default, and `-:` negative matching which allows matched modules to be skipped entirely for quantization. Fixed auto-`Marlin` kerenl selection. Added auto-kernel fallback for unsupported kernel/module pairs. Lots of internal refractor and cleanup in-preparation for transformers/optimum/peft upstream PR merge. Deprecated the saving of `Marlin` weight format since `Marlin` supports auto conversion of `gptq` format to `Marlin` during runtime. 

* 11/29/2024 [1.3.1](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.3.1) Olmo2 model support. Intel XPU acceleration via IPEX. Model sharding Transformer compat fix due to api deprecation in HF. Removed triton dependency. Triton kernel now optionally dependent on triton pkg. 

* 11/26/2024 [1.3.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.3.0) Zero-Day Hymba model support. Removed `tqdm` and `rogue` dependency. 
* 11/24/2024 [1.2.3](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.2.3) HF GLM model support. ClearML logging integration. Use `device-smi` and replace `gputil` + `psutil` depends. Fixed model unit tests. 

* 11/11/2024 🚀 [1.2.1](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.2.1) Meta MobileLLM model support added. `lm-eval[gptqmodel]` integration merged upstream. Intel/IPEX cpu inference merged replacing QBits (deprecated). Auto-fix/patch ChatGLM-3/GLM-4 compat with latest transformers. New `.load()` and `.save()` api. 

* 10/29/2024 🚀 [1.1.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.1.0) IBM Granite model support. Full auto-buildless wheel install from pypi. Reduce max cpu memory usage by >20% during quantization. 100% CI model/feature coverage. 

* 10/12/2024 ✨ [1.0.9](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.9) Move AutoRound to optional and fix pip install regression in v1.0.8.

* 10/11/2024 ✨ [1.0.8](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.8) Add wheel for python 3.12 and cuda 11.8.
* 10/08/2024 ✨ [1.0.7](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.7) Fixed marlin (faster) kernel was not auto-selected for some models.

* 09/26/2024 ✨ [1.0.6](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.6) Fixed quantized Llama 3.2 vision quantized loader.
* 09/26/2024 ✨ [1.0.5](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.5) Partial Llama 3.2 Vision model support (mllama): only text-layer quantization layers are supported for now.

* 09/26/2024 ✨ [1.0.4](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.4) Integrated Liger Kernel support for ~1/2 memory reduction on some models during quantization. Added control toggle disable parallel packing. 
* 09/18/2024 ✨ [1.0.3](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.3) Added Microsoft GRIN-MoE and MiniCPM3 support.
* 08/16/2024 ✨ [1.0.2](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.2) Support Intel/AutoRound v0.3, pre-built whl packages, and PyPI release. 
* 08/14/2024 ✨ [1.0.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v1.0.0) 40% faster `packing`, Fixed Python 3.9 compat, added `lm_eval` api. 
* 08/10/2024 🚀 [0.9.11](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.11) Added LG EXAONE 3.0 model support. New `dynamic` per layer/module flexible quantization where each layer/module may have different bits/params. Added proper sharding support to `backend.BITBLAS`. Auto-heal quantization errors due to small damp values. 
* 07/31/2024 🚀 [0.9.10](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.10) Ported vllm/nm `gptq_marlin` inference kernel with expanded bits (8bits), group_size (64,32), and desc_act support for all GPTQ models with `FORMAT.GPTQ`. Auto calculate auto-round nsamples/seglen parameters based on calibration dataset. Fixed save_quantized() called on pre-quantized models with non-supported backends. HF transformers depend updated to ensure Llama 3.1 fixes are correctly applied to both quant and inference.
* 07/25/2024 🚀 [0.9.9](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.9): Added Llama-3.1 support, Gemma2 27B quant inference support via vLLM, auto pad_token normalization, fixed auto-round quant compat for vLLM/SGLang, and more.  
* 07/13/2024 🚀 [0.9.8](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.8):
Run quantized models directly using GPTQModel using fast `vLLM` or `SGLang` backend! Both vLLM and SGLang are optimized for dyanamic batching inference for maximum `TPS` (check usage under examples). Marlin backend also
got full end-to-end in/out features padding to enhance current/future model compatibility.
* 07/08/2024 🚀 [0.9.7](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.7): InternLM 2.5 model support added.
* 07/08/2024 🚀 [0.9.6](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.6): [Intel/AutoRound](https://github.com/intel/auto-round) QUANT_METHOD support added for a potentially higher quality quantization with `lm_head` module quantization support for even more vram reduction: format export to `FORMAT.GPTQ` for max inference compatibility.
* 07/05/2024 🚀 [0.9.5](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.5): Cuda kernels have been fully deprecated in favor of Exllama(v1/v2)/Marlin/Triton.
* 07/03/2024 🚀 [0.9.4](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.4): HF Transformers integration added and bug fixed Gemma 2 support.
* 07/02/2024 🚀 [0.9.3](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.3): Added Gemma 2 support, faster PPL calculations on gpu, and more code/arg refractor.
* 06/30/2024 🚀 [0.9.2](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.2): Added auto-padding of model in/out-features for exllama and exllama v2. 
Fixed quantization of OPT and DeepSeek V2-Lite models. Fixed inference for DeepSeek V2-Lite.
* 06/29/2024 🚀 [0.9.1](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.1): With 3 new models (DeepSeek-V2, DeepSeek-V2-Lite, DBRX Converted), BITBLAS new format/kernel, proper batching of calibration dataset resulting > 50% quantization speedup, security hash check of loaded model weights, tons of refractor/usability improvements, bugs fixes and much more.
* 06/20/2924 ✨ [0.9.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/releases/tag/v0.9.0): Thanks for all the work from ModelCloud team and the opensource ML community for their contributions!
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## What is GPT-QModel?
GPTQ-Model is a production ready LLM model compression/quantization toolkit with hw accelerated inference support for both cpu/gpu via HF Transformers, vLLM, and SGLang.

Public and ModelCloud's internal tests have shown that GPTQ is on-par and/or exceeds other 4bit quantization methods in terms of both quality recovery and production-level inference speed for token latency and rps. GPTQ has the optimal blend of quality and inference speed you need in a real-world production deployment. 

GPTQ-Model not only supports GPTQ but also QQQ, GPTQv2, Eora with more quantization methods and enhancements planned. 

## Quantization Support

GPTQ-Model is a modular design supporting multiple quantization methods and feature extensions.

| Quantization Feature |  GPTQ-Model | Transformers | vLLM  | SGLang | Lora Training |
|----------------------|---|---|---|---|---------------|
| GPTQ                 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅             | 
| EoRA                 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | x             | 
| GPTQ v2              | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅             | 
| QQQ                  | ✅ | x | x | x | x             | 
| Rotation             | ✅ | x | x | x | x             |  

## Multi-Modal

Native support support some of the most popular multi-modal models:

| Multi-Modal              |   | 
|-------------------|---|
| Qwen 2.5 Omni     | ✅ | 
| Qwen2 VL          | ✅ | 
| Ovis 1.6 + 2      | ✅ | 
| Phi-4 MultiModal  | ✅ | 



## Features
* ✨ Native integration with HF [Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers), [Optimum](https://github.com/huggingface/optimum), and [Peft (main)](https://github.com/huggingface/peft)
* 🚀 [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) and [SGLang](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang) inference integration for quantized model with format = `FORMAT.GPTQ`
* ✨ Linux, MacOS, Windows platform quantization and accelerated inference support for CUDA (Nvidia), XPU (Intel), ROCm (AMD), MPS (Apple Silicon), CPU (Intel/AMD/Apple Silicon).
* 💯 100% CI unit-test coverage for all supported models and kernels including post-quantization quality regression.
* ✨ `Dynamic` mixed quantization control on a per-module basis. Each layer/module can have a unique quantization config or be excluded from quantization all together. 
* 🚀 Intel IPEX and Torch 2.8 fused kernel support for Intel CPU [`avx`, `amx`, `xmx`] and Intel GPU [`Arc` + `Datacenter Max`].
* 🚀 Python 3.13.3t (free-threading, GIL disabled) support for multi-gpu accelerated quantization for MoE models and multi-core cpu boost for post-quant packing.
* ✨ Asymmetric `Sym=False` support. Model weights sharding support with optional hash check of model weights on load.
* ✨ `lm_head` module quant inference support for further VRAM reduction.
* 🚀 [Microsoft/BITBLAS](https://github.com/microsoft/BitBLAS) format + dynamically compiled inference.


## Quality: GPTQ 4bit (5.0 bpw) can match BF16:
🤗 [ModelCloud quantized Vortex models on HF](https://huggingface.co/collections/ModelCloud/vortex-673743382af0a52b2a8b9fe2)

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c1b89394-f8f6-44e5-9949-bef15a124723 width="51%"> <img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/23901236-10c5-4435-ac2f-06cf2e097f1e width="47%">

## Experimental GPTQ v2 quantization: Users have reported this mode of quantization may or may not match original GPTQ v1 implementation in terms of quality recovery. 

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## Model Support  
| Model             |   |                   |   |                |   |                |   |               |   |
|-------------------|---|-------------------|---|----------------|---|----------------|---|---------------|---|
| Apertus           | ✅ | EXAONE 3.0        | ✅ | InternLM 1/2.5 | ✅ | MobileLLM      | ✅ | Qwen 2/2.5 VL | ✅ |
| Baichuan          | ✅ | Falcon (H1)       | ✅ | Kimi K2        | ✅ | MOSS           | ✅ | Qwen 2.5 Omni | ✅ |
| Bloom             | ✅ | FastVLM           | ✅ | Klear          | ✅ | MPT            | ✅ | RefinedWeb    | ✅ |
| ChatGLM           | ✅ | Gemma 1/2/3       | ✅ | Llama 1-3.3    | ✅ | Nemotron H     | ✅ | StableLM      | ✅ |
| CodeGen           | ✅ | GPTBigCod         | ✅ | Llama 3.2 VL   | ✅ | Nemotron Ultra | ✅ | StarCoder2    | ✅ |
| Cohere 1-2        | ✅ | GPTQ-Neo/GPT-NeoX | ✅ | Llama 4        | ✅ | OPT            | ✅ | TeleChat2     | ✅ |
| DBRX Converted    | ✅ | GPT-2             | ✅ | LongCatFlash   | ✅ | OLMo2          | ✅ | Yi            | ✅ |
| Deci              | ✅ | GPT-J             | ✅ | LongLLaMA      | ✅ | Ovis 1.6/2     | ✅ | Seed-OSS      | ✅ |
| DeepSeek-V2/V3/R1 | ✅ | GPT-OSS           | ✅ | Instella       | ✅ | Phi 1-4        | ✅ | XVERSE        | ✅ |
| DeepSeek-V2-Lite  | ✅ | Granite           | ✅ | MiniCPM3       | ✅ | PanGu-α        | ✅ |               |   |
| Dream             | ✅ | GRIN-MoE          | ✅ | Mistral        | ✅ | Qwen 1/2/3     | ✅ |               |   |
| ERNIE 4.5         | ✅ | Hymba             | ✅ | Mixtral        | ✅ | Qwen 2/3 (Next/MoE)   | ✅ |               |   |

## Platform and HW Support 

GPTQ-Model is validated for Linux, MacOS, and Windows 11:

| Platform        | Device        |     |  Optimized Arch              | Kernels                                                     |
|-----------------|---------------| --- | -------------- |-------------------------------------------------------------| 
| 🐧 Linux           | Nvidia GPU    | ✅       | `Ampere+` | Marlin, Exllama V2, Exallma V1, Triton, Torch |
| 🐧 Linux | AMD GPU     | ✅             |   `7900XT+`,  `ROCm 6.2+` | Exllama V2, Exallma V1, Torch                 |
| 🐧 Linux | Intel XPU     | ✅             |   `Arc`, `Datacenter Max` | IPEX, Torch Fused (Python 2.8+)                                               |
| 🐧 Linux           | Intel/AMD CPU | ✅          | `avx`, `amx`, `xmx` | IPEX, Torch                                       |
| 🍎 MacOS | GPU (Metal) / CPU          | ✅             |   `Apple Silicon`, `M1+` | Torch, MLX via conversion                                   |
| 🪟 Windows | GPU (Nvidia) / CPU       | ✅             |   `Nvidia`  | Torch                                          |


## Install

### PIP/UV 

```bash
# You can install optional modules like autoround, ipex, vllm, sglang, bitblas, and ipex.
# Example: pip install -v --no-build-isolation gptqmodel[vllm,sglang,bitblas,ipex,auto_round]
pip install -v gptqmodel --no-build-isolation 
uv pip install -v gptqmodel --no-build-isolation
```

### Install from source

```bash
# clone repo
git clone https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel.git && cd GPTQModel

# pip: compile and install
# You can install optional modules like autoround, ipex, vllm, sglang, bitblas, and ipex.
# Example: pip install -v --no-build-isolation .[vllm,sglang,bitblas,ipex,auto_round]
pip install -v . --no-build-isolation
```

### Inference
Three line api to use `GPT-QModel` for gptq model inference:

```py
from gptqmodel import GPTQModel

model = GPTQModel.load("ModelCloud/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-gptqmodel-4bit-vortex-v2.5")
result = model.generate("Uncovering deep insights begins with")[0] # tokens
print(model.tokenizer.decode(result)) # string output
```

To use models from [ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/) instead of HuggingFace Hub, set an environment variable:
```shell
export GPTQMODEL_USE_MODELSCOPE=True
```
```py
from gptqmodel import GPTQModel
# load Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int4 from modelscope
model = GPTQModel.load("Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int4")
result = model.generate("Uncovering deep insights begins with")[0] # tokens
print(model.tokenizer.decode(result)) # string output
```

### OpenAI API compatible end-point
```py
# load model using above inference guide first
model.serve(host="0.0.0.0",port="12345")
```

### Quantization
Basic example of using `GPTQModel` to quantize a llm model:

```py
from datasets import load_dataset
from gptqmodel import GPTQModel, QuantizeConfig

model_id = "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"
quant_path = "Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-gptqmodel-4bit"

calibration_dataset = load_dataset(
    "allenai/c4",
    data_files="en/c4-train.00001-of-01024.json.gz",
    split="train"
  ).select(range(1024))["text"]

quant_config = QuantizeConfig(bits=4, group_size=128)

model = GPTQModel.load(model_id, quant_config)

# increase `batch_size` to match gpu/vram specs to speed up quantization
model.quantize(calibration_dataset, batch_size=1)

model.save(quant_path)
```

### Quantization using GPTQ V2

Enable GPTQ v2 quantization by setting `v2 = True` for potentially higher post-quantization accuracy recovery.
```py
# note v2 is currently experiemental and requires 2-4x more vram to execute
# if oom on 1 gpu, please set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 to 2 gpu and gptqmodel will auto use second gpu
quant_config = QuantizeConfig(bits=4, group_size=128, v2=True)
```
`Llama 3.1 8B-Instruct` quantized using `test/models/test_llama3_2.py`

| Method  | Bits/Group Size | ARC_CHALLENGE   | GSM8K_Platinum_COT | 
|---------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------------|
| GPTQ    | 4 / 128         | 49.15           | 48.30              |
| GPTQ v2 | 4 / 128         | 49.74  +1.20%   | 61.46  +27.25%     |
| GPTQ    | 3 / 128         | 39.93           | 43.26              |
| GPTQ v2 | 3 / 128         | 41.13  +3.01%   | 50.54  +16.83%     | 

# Quantization Inference
```py
# test post-quant inference
model = GPTQModel.load(quant_path)
result = model.generate("Uncovering deep insights begins with")[0] # tokens
print(model.tokenizer.decode(result)) # string output
```

### Quantization + EoRA Accuracy Recovery 

GPT-QModel now support EoRA, a LoRA method that can further imporve the accuracy of the quantized model
```py
# higher rank improves accuracy at the cost of vram usage
# suggestion: test rank 64 and 32 before 128 or 256 as latter may overfit while increasing memory usage
eora = Lora(
  # for eora generation, path is adapter save path; for load, it is loading path
  path=f"{quant_path}/eora_rank32", 
  rank=32,
)

# provide a previously gptq quantized model path
GPTQModel.adapter.generate(
  adapter=eora,
  model_id_or_path=model_id,
  quantized_model_id_or_path=quant_path,
  calibration_dataset=calibration_dataset,
  calibration_dataset_concat_size=0,
  auto_gc=False)

# post-eora inference
model = GPTQModel.load(
  model_id_or_path=quant_path,
  adapter=eora
)

tokens = model.generate("Capital of France is")[0]
result = model.tokenizer.decode(tokens)

print(f"Result: {result}")
# For more detail of EoRA please see GPTQModel/examples/eora
# Please use the benchmark tools in later part of this README to evaluate EoRA effectiveness
```

For more advanced features of model quantization, please reference to [this script](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/blob/main/examples/quantization/basic_usage_wikitext2.py)

### How to Add Support for a New Model

Read the [`gptqmodel/models/llama.py`](https://github.com/ModelCloud/GPTQModel/blob/5627f5ffeb3f19b1a2a97e3b6de6fbe668b0dc42/gptqmodel/models/llama.py) code which explains in detail via comments how the model support is defined. Use it as guide to PR for to new models. Most models follow the same pattern.

### Evaluation and Quality Benchmarks

GPTQModel inference is integrated into both [lm-eval](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness) and [evalplus](https://github.com/evalplus/evalplus)  
We highly recommend avoid using `ppl` and use `lm-eval`/`evalplus` to validate post-quantization model quality. `ppl` should only be used for regression tests and is not a good indicator of model output quality.  

```
# gptqmodel is integrated into lm-eval >= v0.4.7
pip install lm-eval>=0.4.7
```

```
# gptqmodel is integrated into evalplus[main]
pip install -U "evalplus @ git+https://github.com/evalplus/evalplus"
```

Below is a basic sample using `GPTQModel.eval` API

```py
from gptqmodel import GPTQModel
from gptqmodel.utils.eval import EVAL

model_id = "ModelCloud/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-gptqmodel-4bit-vortex-v1"

# Use `lm-eval` as framework to evaluate the model
lm_eval_results = GPTQModel.eval(model_id, framework=EVAL.LM_EVAL, tasks=[EVAL.LM_EVAL.ARC_CHALLENGE], output_file='lm-eval_result.json')

# Use `evalplus` as framework to evaluate the model
evalplus_results = GPTQModel.eval(model_id, framework=EVAL.EVALPLUS, tasks=[EVAL.EVALPLUS.HUMAN], output_file='evalplus_result.json')
```
### Dynamic Quantization (Per Module QuantizeConfig Override)

`QuantizeConfig.dynamic` is dynamic control which allows specific matching `modules` to be skipped for quantization (negative matching)
or have a unique `[bits, group_size, sym, desc_act, mse, pack_dtype]` property override per matching `module` vs base `QuantizeConfig` (postive match with override). 

Sample `QuantizerConfig.dynamic` usage:

```py
dynamic = { 
    # `.*\.` matches the layers_node prefix 
    # layer index start at 0 
    
    # positive match: layer 19, gate module 
    r"+:.*\.18\..*gate.*": {"bits": 4, "group_size": 32},  
    
    # positgive match: layer 20, gate module (prefix defaults to positive if missing)
    r".*\.19\..*gate.*": {"bits": 8, "group_size": 64},  
    
    # negative match: skip layer 21, gate module
    r"-:.*\.20\..*gate.*": {}, 
    
    # negative match: skip all down modules for all layers
    r"-:.*down.*": {},  
 } 

```

### Group Aware Reordering (GAR)

Group Aware Reordering (GAR) is an enhanced activation reordering scheme designed to significantly improve the accuracy of quantized models without incurring additional inference overhead. Unlike traditional activation reordering, GAR restricts permutations to within individual groups or rearrangements of entire groups. This ensures each group's associated scales and zero-points remain efficiently accessible during inference, thereby avoiding any inference-time overhead.

How to enable GAR:

Set the `act_group_aware` parameter to `True` and disable the default activation reordering by setting `desc_act` to `False` in your `QuantizeConfig`. For example:

```python
quant_config = QuantizeConfig(bits=4, group_size=128, act_group_aware=True)
```


### Experimental Features

* GPTQ v2: set `v2=True` in quantization config.
* Pass `auto_gc = False` to `quantize()` api to speed up quantization if gpu has plenty of vram and does not need to call slow gc.
* Pass `buffered_fwd = True` to `quantize()` api to potentially speed up quantization if gpu has plenty of vram and can hold all fwd inputs in vram.


### Attribution of Quantization Methods:

* GPTQ (v1): IST-DASLab, main-author: Elias Frantar, arXiv:2210.17323
* GPTQ (v2*): Yale Intelligent Computing Lab, main-author: Yuhang Li, arXiv:2504.02692. v2 naming is by Yale author and not endorsed by original GPTQ authors.
* QQQ: Meituan, main-author Ying Zhang, arXiv:2406.09904
* EoRA: Nvidia, main-author: Shih-Yang Liu, arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21271.
* GAR: Intel, main-author: T Gafni, A Karnieli, Y Hanani, [Paper](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025W/eLVM/html/Gafni_Dual_Precision_Quantization_for_Efficient_and_Accurate_Deep_Neural_Networks_CVPRW_2025_paper.html)


## Citation

```bibtex
# GPTQModel
@misc{qubitium2024gptqmodel,
  author = {ModelCloud.ai and qubitium@modelcloud.ai},
  title = {GPTQModel},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/modelcloud/gptqmodel}},
  note = {Contact: qubitium@modelcloud.ai},
  year = {2024},
}

# GPTQ
@article{frantar-gptq,
  title={{GPTQ}: Accurate Post-training Compression for Generative Pretrained Transformers}, 
  author={Elias Frantar and Saleh Ashkboos and Torsten Hoefler and Dan Alistarh},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.17323},
  year={2022}
  
}

# EoRA
@article{liu2024eora,
  title={EoRA: Training-free Compensation for Compressed LLM with Eigenspace Low-Rank Approximation},
  author={Liu, Shih-Yang and Yang, Huck and Wang, Chien-Yi and Fung, Nai Chit and Yin, Hongxu and Sakr, Charbel and Muralidharan, Saurav and Cheng, Kwang-Ting and Kautz, Jan and Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21271},
  year={2024}
}

# Group Aware Reordering (GAR)
@article{gar,
  title={Dual Precision Quantization for Efficient and Accurate Deep Neural Networks Inference, CVPRW 2025.},
  author={T. Gafni, A. Karnieli, Y. Hanani},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.14638},
  year={2025}
}

# GPTQ Marlin Kernel
@article{frantar2024marlin,
  title={MARLIN: Mixed-Precision Auto-Regressive Parallel Inference on Large Language Models},
  author={Frantar, Elias and Castro, Roberto L and Chen, Jiale and Hoefler, Torsten and Alistarh, Dan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11743},
  year={2024}
}

# QQQ 
@article{zhang2024qqq,
      title={QQQ: Quality Quattuor-Bit Quantization for Large Language Models}, 
      author={Ying Zhang and Peng Zhang and Mincong Huang and Jingyang Xiang and Yujie Wang and Chao Wang and Yineng Zhang and Lei Yu and Chuan Liu and Wei Lin},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09904},
      year={2024}
}

# GPTQ v2
@article{li2025gptqv2,
  title={GPTQv2: Efficient Finetuning-Free Quantization for Asymmetric Calibration}, 
  author={Yuhang Li and Ruokai Yin and Donghyun Lee and Shiting Xiao and Priyadarshini Panda},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02692},
  year={2025}
}
```