Welcome to the torchao Documentation

torchao is a library for custom data types and optimizations. Quantize and sparsify weights, gradients, optimizers, and activations for inference and training using native PyTorch. Please checkout torchao README for an overall introduction to the library and recent highlight and updates.

Getting Started

• Quick Start Guide

Developer Notes

• Quantization Overview
• Contributor Guide
• Sparsity Overview
• Benchmarking API Guide
• Benchmarking User Guide

API Reference

• torchao.dtypes
• torchao.quantization
• torchao.quantization.qat
• torchao.sparsity
• torchao.float8
• torchao.utils
• torchao.quantization.quantize_.common

Eager Quantization Tutorials

• (Part 1) Pre-training with float8
• (Part 2) Fine-tuning with QAT, QLoRA, and float8
• (Part 3) Serving on vLLM, SGLang, ExecuTorch
• Integration with VLLM: Architecture and Usage Guide
• Serialization
• Static Quantization
• Writing Your Own Quantized Tensor
• Writing Your Own Quantized Tensor (advanced)

PT2E Quantization Tutorials

• PyTorch 2 Export Post Training Quantization
• PyTorch 2 Export Quantization-Aware Training (QAT)
• PyTorch 2 Export Quantization with X86 Backend through Inductor
• PyTorch 2 Export Quantization with Intel GPU Backend through Inductor
• PyTorch 2 Export Quantization for OpenVINO torch.compile Backend
• How to Write a Quantizer for PyTorch 2 Export Quantization