# Hugging Face — Introducing Optimum: The Optimization Toolkit for Transformers at Scale

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-09-14
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/hardware-partners-program
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2252-introducing-optimum-the-optimization-toolkit-for-transformers-at-scale
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face introduces Optimum, an open-source optimization toolkit for Transformers, aiming to make it easy to leverage hardware-specific acceleration techniques like quantization, with initial collaboration with Intel's Neural Compressor.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/hardware-partners-program:

> Through Optimum, our new open source library, we aim to build the definitive toolkit for Transformers production performance, and enable maximum efficiency to train and run models on specific hardware.

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