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🚀 Accelerate inference and training of 🤗 Transformers, Diffusers, TIMM and Sentence Transformers with easy to use hardware optimization tools

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Optimize the performance of machine learning models for faster training and inference on specific hardware.

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🚀 Accelerate inference and training of 🤗 Transformers, Diffusers, TIMM and Sentence Transformers with easy to use hardware optimization tools

optimum has 3.4k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 663 times. optimum is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2021. optimum is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are graphcore, habana, inference, intel.

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🚀 Accelerate inference and training of 🤗 Transformers, Diffusers, TIMM and Sentence Transformers with easy to use hardware optimization tools

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optimum is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

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optimum is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

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optimum is written mainly in Python.

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