What's Changed

⚡ 25% faster quantization. 35% reduction in vram usage vs v1.5. 👀
🎉 AMD ROCm (6.2+) support added and validated for 7900XT+ GPU.
💫 Auto-tokenizer loader via load() api. For most models you no longer need to manually init a tokenizer for both inference and quantization.

• note about batch_size to speed up quant by @Qubitium in #992
• Add ROCm support by @CSY-ModelCloud in #993
• Add bits test by @ZX-ModelCloud in #995
• note about rocm support by @Qubitium in #998
• [FIX] wrong variable name by @ZX-ModelCloud in #997
• update rocm version tag by @CSY-ModelCloud in #999
• Auto-tokenizer will be called within load() by @LRL-ModelCloud in #996
• update transformers by @Qubitium in #1001
• [FIX] torch qlinear forward by @ZX-ModelCloud in #1002
• cleanup marlin info by @Qubitium in #1004
• Use custom forward hook by @LRL-ModelCloud in #1003
• fix hooked linear init by @LRL-ModelCloud in #1011
• add HookedConv1D by @LRL-ModelCloud in #1012
• record fwd time by @LRL-ModelCloud in #1013
• add PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF for global & do ruff by @CSY-ModelCloud in #1015
• [FIX] quantize_config could not read from config.json by @ZX-ModelCloud in #1022
• Fix quant time by @LRL-ModelCloud in #1025
• fix forward hook by @LRL-ModelCloud in #1027
• Fix hooked conv2d by @LRL-ModelCloud in #1030
• clean cache by @CL-ModelCloud in #1032

Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.6.0