v1.22.0: Qwen2-VL, Granite, Sana, Sentence Transformers

OpenVINO

• Add quantization of Whisper pipeline by @nikita-savelyevv in #1040
• Add Qwen2-VL support by @eaidova in #1042
• Add AWQ models support by @mvafin in #1049
• Update default OV configuration by @KodiaqQ in #1057
• Introduce --quant-mode cli argument enabling full quantization via optimum-cli by @nikita-savelyevv in #1061
• Merge decoder and decoder with past to stateful for seq2seq models by @eaidova in #1078
• Add transformers 4.47 support by @IlyasMoutawwakil in #1088
• Add GLM-Edge models support by @eaidova in #1089
• Add Granite and GraniteMoe models support by @eaidova in #1099
• Add fp8 implementation by @KodiaqQ in #1100
• Add Flux Fill inpainting pipeline support by @eaidova in #1095
• Add Sana support by @eaidova in #1106
• Add v4.48 transformers support by @IlyasMoutawwakil in #1136

IPEX

• Add support to sentence transformers models by @echarlaix in #1034

from optimum.intel import IPEXSentenceTransformer

model = IPEXSentenceTransformer.from_pretrained(model_id)

• Add support to text-to-text task by @jiqing-feng in #1054

from optimum.intel import IPEXModelForSeq2SeqLM

model = IPEXModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(model_id)

• Enable Flash Attention by @jiqing-feng in #1065

Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel/commits/v1.22.0