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+## The path to v1.0.0
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+Hi, fellow community members, long time no see! I'm sorry that I haven't been able to update this project more frequently due to personal reasons during this period. The past few weeks have been huge in terms of my career plans. Not long ago, I officially bid farewell to the startup team that I joined for two years after graduation. I'm very grateful to the leaders and colleagues of the team for their trust and guidance, which enabled me to grow rapidly in two years; at the same time, I'm also really grateful to the team for allowing me to use the internal A100 GPU server cluster free of charge since the start of the AutoGPTQ project to complete various experiments and performance evaluations. (Of course, it can no longer be used in the future, so **it will mean a lot to me if there will be new hardware sponsorship!**) In the past two years, I have served as an AI engineer in this team, responsible for the LLM based dialogue system's architecture design and develop. We had successfully launched a product called gemsouls, but unfortunately it has ceased operations. Now, the team is about to launch a new product called [modelize](https://modelize.ai/), which is a LLM-native AI agent platform, where users can use multiple AI agents to build a highly automated team, allowing them to interact with each other in the workflow, collaborate to complete complex projects efficiently.
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+Getting back to the topic, I'm very excited to see that in the past few months, research on optimizing the inference performance of LLMs has made tremendous progress. Now we can not only complete the inference of LLMs on high-end GPUs efficiently, but also on CPUs and even edge devices. A series of technological advancements make me eager to make more contributions to the open source community. Therefore, I will first use about four weeks to gradually update AutoGPTQ to the v1.0.0 official version. During this period, there will also be 2~3 minor versions are released to allow users to experience performance optimization and new features timely. In my vision, **by the time v1.0.0 is officially released, AutoGPTQ will be able to serve as an extendable and flexible quantization backend that supports all GPTQ-like methods and automatically quantize LLMs written by Pytorch**. I detailed the development plan in #348, feel free to drop in there for discussion and give your suggestions!
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 ## News or Update
 
 - 2023-08-23 - (News) - 🤗 Transformers, optimum and peft have integrated `auto-gptq`, so now running and training GPTQ models can be more available to everyone! See [this blog](https://huggingface.co/blog/gptq-integration) and it's resources for more details!

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+嗨，社区的伙伴们，好久不见！很抱歉这段时间由于个人原因，我没能以较高的频率来更新这个项目。过去几周对我的职业生涯规划而言意义重大。在不久前，我正式告别了毕业后便加入两年之久的创业团队，非常感谢团队的领导和同事们给予我的信任与指导，让我能够在两年时间里飞速地成长；同时也十分感激团队允许我自 AutoGPTQ 项目创立以来一直无偿使用内部的 A100 GPU 服务器集群以完成各项实验与性能测评。（当然今后是无法继续使用了，因此**若有新的硬件赞助我将感激不尽**！）过去的两年里，我在这个团队中担任算法工程师的角色，负责基于大语言模型的对话系统架构设计与开发，我们曾成功推出一款名为 gemsouls 的产品，但不幸的是它已经停止运营。而现在，这个团队即将推出一款名为 [modelize](http://modelize.ai/) 的新产品，这是一个大模型原生的 AI 智能体平台，用户可以使用多个 AI 智能体搭建一个高度自动化的团队，让它们在工作流中相互合作，高效完成复杂的项目。
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+话归正题，我非常兴奋地看到，在过去几个月的时间里，针对大语言模型推理性能优化的研究取得了巨大的进展，如今我们不仅能够在高端显卡上完成大语言模型的推理，甚至在 CPU 和边缘设备上都可以轻松运行大语言模型。一系列的技术进步，让我同样迫不及待地在开源社区上做出更多的贡献，因此，首先，我将用约四周的时间将 AutoGPTQ 迭代至 v1.0.0 正式版本，在此期间，也会有 2~3 个小版本发布以让用户能够及时体验性能优化和新特性。在我的愿景里，**到 v1.0.0 版本正式发布时，AutoGPTQ 将能够作为一个灵活可拓展的、支持所有 GPTQ-like 方法的量化后端，自动地完成各种基于 Pytorch 编写的大语言模型的量化工作**。我在 #348 中详细介绍了开发计划，欢迎移步至此进行讨论并给出你们的建议！
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 ## 新闻或更新
 
 - 2023-08-23 - (新闻) - 🤗 Transformers、optimum 和 peft 完成了对 `auto-gptq` 的集成，现在使用 GPTQ 模型进行推理和训练将变得更容易！阅读 [这篇博客](https://huggingface.co/blog/gptq-integration) 和相关资源以了解更多细节！