Intel® Neural Compressor v1.12 Release

Features

• Quantization

  • Support accuracy-aware AMP (INT8/BF16/FP32) on PyTorch
  • Improve post-training quantization (static & dynamic) on PyTorch
  • Improve post-training quantization on TensorFlow
  • Improve QLinear and QDQ quantization modes on ONNX Runtime
  • Improve accuracy-aware AMP (INT8/FP32) on ONNX Runtime

• Pruning

  • Improve pruning-once-for-all for NLP models

• Sparsity

  • Support experimental sparse kernel for reference examples

Productivity

• Support model deployment by loading INT8 models directly from HuggingFace model hub
• Improve GUI with optimized model downloading, performance profiling, etc.

Ecosystem

• Highlight simple quantization usage with few clicks on ONNX Model Zoo
• Upstream INC quantized models (ResNet101, Tiny YoloV3) to ONNX Model Zoo

Examples

• Add Bert-mini distillation + quantization notebook example
• Add DLRM & SSD-ResNet34 quantization examples on IPEX
• Improve BERT structured sparsity training example

Validated Configurations

• Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10
• Centos 8.3 & Ubuntu 18.04 & Win10
• TensorFlow 2.6.2, 2.7, 2.8
• Intel TensorFlow 1.15.0 UP3, 2.7, 2.8
• PyTorch 1.8.0+cpu, 1.9.0+cpu, 1.10.0+cpu
• IPEX 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0
• MxNet 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0
• ONNX Runtime 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0