Installation

To install the latest release of 🤗 Optimum Intel with the corresponding required dependencies, you can do respectively:

Accelerator	Installation
Intel Neural Compressor (INC)	`pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager "optimum[neural-compressor]"`
Intel OpenVINO	`pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager "optimum[openvino]"`

The --upgrade-strategy eager option is needed to ensure optimum-intel is upgraded to the latest version.

We recommend creating a virtual environment and upgrading pip with :

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Optimum Intel is a fast-moving project, and you may want to install from source with the following command:

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel.git

or to install from source including dependencies:

python -m pip install "optimum-intel[extras]"@git+https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel.git

where extras can be one or more of neural-compressor, openvino, nncf.