optimum and optimum-transformers
B builds specialized NLP inference pipelines on top of A's optimization framework, making them complements rather than competitors—B leverages Optimum's hardware optimization tools as a dependency to deliver pre-built use cases.
About optimum
huggingface/optimum
🚀 Accelerate inference and training of 🤗 Transformers, Diffusers, TIMM and Sentence Transformers with easy to use hardware optimization tools
Supports hardware-specific backends including ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, TensorRT-LLM, AWS Neuron, and Intel Gaudi through modular installations, enabling optimized inference across diverse accelerators. Provides unified APIs for model export, quantization, and graph optimization while maintaining compatibility with PyTorch, enabling deployment from research to production without refactoring model code.
About optimum-transformers
AlekseyKorshuk/optimum-transformers
Accelerated NLP pipelines for fast inference on CPU and GPU. Built with Transformers, Optimum and ONNX Runtime.
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