v1.25.0: Text-to-Text generation models quantization

🚀 New Features & Enhancements

• Add quantization for text2text-generation models by @nikita-savelyevv in #1359
• Add OpenVINO support for Mamba and Falcon-mamba by @rkazants in #1360
• Add quantization for SegmentAnything model by @nikita-savelyevv in #1384
• Add support for cb4_f8e4m3 quantization mode by @nikita-savelyevv in #1378
• Add quantization statistics path argument by @nikita-savelyevv in #1392
• Add Transformers 4.53 support by @IlyasMoutawwakil in #1377

New Contributors

• @mitruska made their first contribution in #1375
• @ezelanza made their first contribution in #1385

What's Changed

• Add OpenVINO weight compression tests for llama4 by @nikita-savelyevv in #1369
• Fix IPEX model loading for sentence-transformers v5 by @echarlaix in #1370
• Update OpenVINO documentation with newly supported tasks by @rkazants in #1371
• [Docs] Optimization table on click feedback logic by @nikita-savelyevv in #1372
• Fix attr name typo in model_configs for llava-next compatibility with transformers 4.51.3 by @mitruska in #1375
• [OV] Add quantization for text2text-generation models by @nikita-savelyevv in #1359
• free up disk for slow/full ci by @IlyasMoutawwakil in #1376
• Original model types by @IlyasMoutawwakil in #1329
• Add openvino VLM quantization notebook by @echarlaix in #1382
• Remove notebook redundant quantization configs by @echarlaix in #1383
• [OV] Prepare quantization dataset collection logic to transition to datasets v4.0 by @nikita-savelyevv in #1381
• [OpenVINO] Add support for Mamba and Falcon-mamba by @rkazants in #1360
• Improve VLM quantization notebook structure by @ezelanza in #1385
• [OV] Add quantization for SegmentAnything model by @nikita-savelyevv in #1384
• [OV] Update the reference number of int8 nodes for SANA model by @nikita-savelyevv in #1386
• Add notebook quantization config paragraph by @echarlaix in #1390
• [TTS] Fix second generation for Speech T5 TSS by @rkazants in #1389
• fix auto_model_class for OVModelForVisualCausalLM by @echarlaix in #1391
• Add support for cb4_f8e4m3 quantization mode. by @nikita-savelyevv in #1378
• Add quantization statistics path argument by @nikita-savelyevv in #1392
• Transformers 4.53 support by @IlyasMoutawwakil in #1377

Compatible with transformers>=4.36,<=4.53

Full Changelog: v1.24.0...v1.25.0