Model Efficiency

Hugging Face Optimum

Open-source optimization toolkit for training and running transformer models efficiently.

Verified 2026-10-22

Overview

Hugging Face Optimum is an open-source extension of Transformers, Diffusers, TIMM and Sentence Transformers that provides optimization tools for training and running models on targeted hardware. It covers ONNX and ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, AMD Instinct GPUs and Ryzen AI NPUs, AWS Trainium and Inferentia, Intel Gaudi, and FuriosaAI accelerators. Optimum is distributed under Apache 2.0 and installs from PyPI.

Use cases

  • Optimize models for target accelerators
  • Export models to ONNX
  • Quantize and accelerate inference
  • Run training on specialized hardware

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