Optimum Library is an extension of the Hugging Face Transformers library, providing a framework to integrate third-party libraries from Hardware Partners and interface with their specific functionality.
🤗 Optimum is an extension of 🤗 Transformers, providing a set of performance optimization tools enabling maximum efficiency to train and run models on targeted hardware.
The AI ecosystem evolves quickly and more and more specialized hardware along with their own optimizations are emerging every day. As such, Optimum enables users to efficiently use any of these platforms with the same ease inherent to transformers.
