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awq-quantization from jensen-yao/agents-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- MIT
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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What the file says
# 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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How to install
mdr add jensen-yao/agents-skills/awq-quantization@sha256:9a875e53113c11b0The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
jensen-yao/agents-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
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