AutoAWQ Kernels is a new package that is split up from the [main repository](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) in order to avoid compilation times.
Modified from NVIDIA FasterTransformer: https://github.com/NVIDIA/FasterTransformer/blob/main/src/fastertransformer/cutlass_extensions/include/cutlass_extensions/interleaved_numeric_conversion.h
@article{lin2023awq,
title={AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression and Acceleration},
author={Lin, Ji and Tang, Jiaming and Tang, Haotian and Yang, Shang and Dang, Xingyu and Han, Song},