Intel and Hugging Face Partner to Democratize Machine Learning Hardware Acceleration

Hugging Face · 4 years ago · 13

Intel joined Hugging Face's Hardware Partner Program to develop optimization tools that reduce latency and improve performance for Transformer models running on Intel platforms. The collaboration achieved single-digit millisecond latency for DistilBERT on Intel Xeon Ice Lake CPUs and Habana Gaudi accelerators deliver up to 40% better price-performance than GPUs. The Optimum Intel open-source library now allows machine learning practitioners to apply quantization, pruning, and other optimization techniques to Transformer models with minimal code changes.