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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:
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