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Description

Add AWQ algorithm support for the new architecture

Type of Change

New feature

Related Issues

Fixes or relates to #1469

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  • My code has been tested locally.
  • Documentation has been updated as needed.
  • New or updated tests are included where applicable.
  • The CUDA CI has passed. You can trigger it by commenting /azp run Unit-Test-CUDA-AutoRound.

Benchmark Results (W8A8_INT8, group_size=128, sym=True, fake)

Still WIP for more results

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Method Arc_c Arc_e Boolq HellaSwag Lambada MMLU OpenBookQA PIQA TruthfulQA WinoGrande AVG Peak RAM / VRAM Time
BF16 0.5333 0.8215 0.8550 0.5976 0.7213 0.6838 0.3560 0.8020 0.3819 0.7411 0.6494
AR_AWQ 0.5478 0.8258 0.8517 0.5960 0.7223 0.6805 0.3580 0.7949 0.3782 0.7372 0.6492 24.68 / 18.80 GB 927s
AR_RTN 0.5350 0.8203 0.8505 0.5963 0.7223 0.6748 0.3580 0.7965 0.3819 0.7332 0.6469 27.13 / 1.41 GB 200s
AR 0.5290 0.8190 0.8517 0.5959 0.7192 0.6785 0.3600 0.8020 0.3758 0.7340 0.6465 22.83 / 21.29 GB 1413s
LLMC_AWQ 0.5358 0.8203 0.8526 0.5957 0.7169 0.6778 0.3560 0.7949 0.3794 0.7348 0.6464 4.41 / 30.99 GB* 782s
LLMC_SmoothQuant 0.5341 0.8203 0.8492 0.5966 0.7190 0.6754 0.3560 0.7943 0.3745 0.7324 0.6452 WIP 1035s

Qwen3-8B

Method Arc_c Arc_e Boolq HellaSwag Lambada MMLU OpenBookQA PIQA TruthfulQA WinoGrande AVG Peak RAM / VRAM Time
BF16 0.5529 0.8363 0.8670 0.5715 0.6420 0.7288 0.3160 0.7655 0.3647 0.6788 0.6324
AR_AWQ 0.5512 0.8279 0.8642 0.5716 0.6583 0.7251 0.3200 0.7693 0.3623 0.6819 0.6332 22.60 / 16.46 GB
AR_RTN 0.5555 0.8224 0.8654 0.5689 0.6682 0.7279 0.3180 0.7699 0.3574 0.6803 0.6334 27.00 / 1.25 GB
AR 0.5392 0.8224 0.8664 0.5654 0.6270 0.7303 0.3020 0.7606 0.3574 0.6796 0.6250 15.07 / 19.51 GB
LLMC_AWQ 0.5469 0.8291 0.8700 0.5651 0.6375 0.7296 0.3160 0.7644 0.3660 0.6898 0.6314
LLMC_SmoothQuant 0.5529 0.8270 0.8654 0.5702 0.6716 0.7242 0.3160 0.7606 0.3427 0.6890 0.6320

Notes:

  • AR_AWQ / LLMC_AWQ: nsamples=128, calibration data=pile (AR) / ultrachat_200k (LLMC)
  • LLMC_SmoothQuant: nsamples=512, ultrachat_200k

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/azp run Unit-Test-CUDA-AutoRound

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@copilot resolve the merge conflicts in this pull request

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auto_round/compressors_new/base.py:1

  • format.save_quantized(...) is being called with a new algorithm= kwarg. Unless every format implementation’s save_quantized signature (and any downstream wrappers) has been updated to accept this parameter, this will raise a TypeError at runtime for unrelated formats. Consider either (a) updating the base format interface to accept algorithm: str | None = None everywhere, or (b) only passing algorithm when the target format explicitly supports it (e.g., by feature-detecting via inspect.signature, or by routing through kwargs with a known-safe key for that formatter).
# Copyright (c) 2026 Intel Corporation

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Comment thread auto_round/algorithms/quantization/awq/quantizer.py
Comment thread auto_round/algorithms/quantization/awq/quantizer.py
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why is AR so slow now. without torch compile, it should be <1200s, with torch compile, it should be <800s

You’re right. The AR time shown there is slower than expected; that number was from a non-optimized run and doesn’t reflect the expected <1200s (no compile) / <800s (with torch.compile) target. I’ll rerun and refresh the benchmark numbers accordingly.

what's the scheme? for W4A16, the mmlu should be less than 0.67, it's W8A8?

It’s W8A8 (fake quant), not W4A16. The benchmark section header is W8A8_INT8, group_size=128, sym=True, fake; I’ll make this more prominent to avoid confusion.

@copilot resolve the merge conflicts in this pull request

Resolved by merging origin/main into this branch and fixing the conflicts in docs/step_by_step.md and docs/step_by_step_CN.md (kept both AWQ and Model-Free TOC entries). Commit: 3d8c72b.

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/azp run Unit-Test-CUDA-AutoRound

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# Cohere / Command-R
"CohereForCausalLM": _cohere_mappings,
"Cohere2ForCausalLM": _cohere_mappings,
"Cohere2VisionForConditionalGeneration": _cohere_mappings,
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is this mapping same with llmc or gptqmodel. As we may have no time to update this file, so it would be better we leverage a same file used in these repo

from auto_round.logger import logger


class AWQQuantizer(RTNQuantizer):
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why inherits RTNQuantizers here,

@@ -225,6 +227,10 @@ def __new__(
if isinstance(quant_config, SignRoundConfig):
return _get_compressor_class(model_type, CalibCompressor)(alg_configs, **local_args, **kwargs)
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@n1ck-guo It would be better to use a registry or something similar. An algorithm developer should only need to care about the code inside their own alg folder.

act_sym=act_sym,
act_data_type=act_data_type,
act_dynamic=act_dynamic,
duo_scaling=duo_scaling,
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same issue

Comment thread auto_round/__main__.py
type=str.lower,
choices=["auto_round", "rtn", "awq"],
help="Quantization algorithm to use. "
"auto_round: SignSGD-based optimization (default when iters > 0). "
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how to set multlple algorithm

return

# Resolve mappings
self._resolved_mappings = resolve_mappings(model, self._user_mappings)
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@n1ck-guo algorithm should control the act hook

# subsequent mappings.)
seen_parents = set()
for mapping in block_mappings:
pid = id(mapping.parent)
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where is the entry to quantize the layer

self.n_grid = config.n_grid

# Populated during calibration
self._user_mappings = config.mappings
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please add two more args, 1 eanble_minmax_tuning(this name could not change) 2 apply_smooth(feel free to give a better neam) to control the two alg parts in awq.

@chensuyue chensuyue added this to the 0.13.0 milestone May 14, 2026
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