microsoft / microsoft/onnxruntime-genai
Support for dynamic int8 quantization
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Description
Hi there!
Could we add the functionality to add int8 quantization as a `--precision` option?
I believe the easiest way would probably be using onnxruntime `quantize_dynamic` function after converting to fp32. Not really sure what the difference would be for using MatMulNBitsQuantizer with `bits=8` option.
The reason is that some architecutres (specifically ppc64le) use matrix math optimization for int8 but do not have them for int4.
Would a PR in that direction be accepted?
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Start by locating the existing --precision handling and the path that converts models to fp32. Compare the proposed onnxruntime quantize_dynamic approach with MatMulNBitsQuantizer using bits=8. Done means int8 dynamic quantization is available through --precision and supports the ppc64le use case; no file or test is named in the issue.
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- Tech stack
- cpp
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- machine-learning
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- Feature
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