# Hugging Face — Quanto: a PyTorch quantization backend for Optimum

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/quanto-introduction
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1926-quanto-a-pytorch-quantization-backend-for-optimum

Hugging Face introduces Quanto, a PyTorch quantization backend for Optimum, designed for versatility and simplicity, supporting various quantization schemes and devices.

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Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/quanto-introduction:

> Today, we are excited to introduce quanto, a PyTorch quantization backend for Optimum.

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