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Activation-aware weight quantization for 4-bit LLM compression with 3x speedup and minimal accuracy loss. Use when deploying large models (7B-70B) on limited GPU memory, when you need faster inference than GPTQ with better accuracy preservation, or for instruction-tuned and multimodal models. MLSys 2024 Best Paper Award winner.

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# AWQ (Activation-aware Weight Quantization)

4-bit quantization that preserves salient weights based on activation patterns, achieving 3x speedup with minimal accuracy loss.

## When to use AWQ

**Use AWQ when:**
- Need 4-bit quantization with <5% accuracy loss
- Deploying instruction-tuned or chat models (AWQ generalizes better)
- Want ~2.5-3x inference speedup over FP16
- Using vLLM for production serving
- Have Ampere+ GPUs (A100, H100, RTX 40xx) for Marlin kernel support

**Use GPTQ instead when:**
- Need maximum ecosystem compatibility (more tools support GPTQ)
- Working with ExLlamaV2 backend specifically
- Have older GPUs without Marlin support

**Use bitsandbytes instead when:**
- Need zero calibration overhead (quantize on-the-fly)
- Want to fine-tune with QLoRA
- Prefer simpler integration

## Quick start

### Installation

```bash
# Default (Triton kernels)
pip install autoawq

# With optimized CUDA kernels + Flash Attention
pip install autoawq[kernels]

# Intel CPU/XPU optimization
pip install autoawq[cpu]
```

**Requirements**: Python 3.8+, CUDA 11.8+, Compute Capability 7.5+

### Load pre-quantized model

```python
from awq import AutoAWQForCausalLM
…

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yichen-zju/claude-for-research · 10 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

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