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Intel Neural Compressor

Intel

Intel Neural Compressor is a Python library that applies model-compression techniques across PyTorch, TensorFlow and ONNX Runtime, covering static and dynamic quantization, SmoothQuant, weight-only quantization, quantization-aware training, mixed precision and pruning. Low-bit formats down to INT4 and the MX and NVFP4 families are supported, with automatic accuracy-driven tuning.

Verified 2026-08-18 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public
core-gated
ungated

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.

Adoption

2 high confidence
2.0

33,576 PyPI downloads of `neural-compressor` in the trailing 30 days, which lands in the 10K-100K band of the software usage scale, level 2.

Capability

4 medium confidence
4.0

Banded on the category feature matrix as multi-technique optimization toolchain. Placed one band below the apache-tvm anchor, on a matrix that bands on how much of the model-to-hardware transformation pipeline a product performs, over how many inputs and targets.

  • https://github.com/intel/neural-compressor/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

    README still documents static and dynamic quantization, SmoothQuant, weight-only quantization, quantization-aware training, mixed precision and pruning across PyTorch, TensorFlow and ONNX Runtime, down to INT4 and the MX and NVFP4 formats.

Verified 2026-08-18