# AutoAWQ: 4-bit AWQ quantization package, deprecated, README overview

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- updated: 2026-11-07T17:55:46.019Z
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The README presents AutoAWQ as a 4-bit AWQ quantization package, now deprecated in favour of llm-compressor and MLX-LM.

Source: https://github.com/casper-hansen/autoawq

What it supplies: The README presents AutoAWQ as a 4-bit AWQ quantization package, now deprecated in favour of llm-compressor and MLX-LM.

Useful for: - Quantize a model to 4-bit AWQ and run inference.
- Choose GEMM or GEMV by batch size.

First action: - Check GPU and CUDA prerequisites.
- Install with pip install autoawq or a kernels variant.
- Prefer the maintained alternatives for new work.

Prerequisites and limits: Last tested with Torch 2.6.0 and Transformers 4.51.3; NVIDIA needs compute capability 7.5 and CUDA 11.8 or later.

- The project is deprecated and unmaintained.
- Newer Transformers versions may break it.
- Speed claims in the README were not verified.

The README text read does not state the licence, so check the repository licence file.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on the notice, install, usage and example README text only; benchmark tables were not verified. Nothing was installed or run.

Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ/88e4c76b20755db275574e6a03c83c84ba3bece5/README.md ; 17855 bytes ; sha256 a034b268e25885d56e1f45bf7b896e21581737c23546aa196e5b5a0487338423 ; 8 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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