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 After that you can run the model in a mobile app (see [Running in a mobile app](#running-in-a-mobile-app)).
 
+# Paper: TorchAO: PyTorch-Native Training-to-Serving Model Optimization
+The model's quantization is powered by **TorchAO**, a framework presented in the paper [TorchAO: PyTorch-Native Training-to-Serving Model Optimization](https://huggingface.co/papers/2507.16099).
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+**Abstract:** We present TorchAO, a PyTorch-native model optimization framework leveraging quantization and sparsity to provide an end-to-end, training-to-serving workflow for AI models. TorchAO supports a variety of popular model optimization techniques, including FP8 quantized training, quantization-aware training (QAT), post-training quantization (PTQ), and 2:4 sparsity, and leverages a novel tensor subclass abstraction to represent a variety of widely-used, backend agnostic low precision data types, including INT4, INT8, FP8, MXFP4, MXFP6, and MXFP8. TorchAO integrates closely with the broader ecosystem at each step of the model optimization pipeline, from pre-training (TorchTitan) to fine-tuning (TorchTune, Axolotl) to serving (HuggingFace, vLLM, SGLang, ExecuTorch), connecting an otherwise fragmented space in a single, unified workflow. TorchAO has enabled recent launches of the quantized Llama 3.2 1B/3B and LlamaGuard3-8B models and is open-source at this https URL .
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+# Resources
+*   **Official TorchAO GitHub Repository:** [https://github.com/pytorch/ao](https://github.com/pytorch/ao)
+*   **TorchAO Documentation:** [https://docs.pytorch.org/ao/stable/index.html](https://docs.pytorch.org/ao/stable/index.html)
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 # Disclaimer
 PyTorch has not performed safety evaluations or red teamed the quantized models. Performance characteristics, outputs, and behaviors may differ from the original models. Users are solely responsible for selecting appropriate use cases, evaluating and mitigating for accuracy, safety, and fairness, ensuring security, and complying with all applicable laws and regulations.