Optimum ONNX Runtime: Enhancing Hugging Face Model Training for Societal AI Progress
Experimental API & Hardware Support Disclaimer: This guide is based on the Optimum and ONNX Runtime features available as of January 2023. As the ecosystem for hardware-specific acceleration (including TensorRT and OpenVINO providers) is rapidly maturing, users should anticipate API changes in the 'optimum' library. Always verify hardware kernel support for specific operators against the latest ONNX operator set (opset) versions. Also: Informational only. Performance and accuracy can change after graph optimizations or quantization; validate quality on your own datasets and monitor regressions. Optimum ONNX Runtime (Optimum + ONNX Runtime training) is designed to make Hugging Face model training and fine-tuning more efficient without forcing teams to abandon familiar Transformers workflows. In early 2023, the engineering pressure is clear: modern NLP systems are expensive to train, and the cost (and energy footprint) compounds as you iterate. The stor...