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Elias Frantar

Researcher, OpenAI

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Elias Frantar is a researcher at OpenAI. Frantar's GitHub profile and a short about page state that role. Frantar completed a PhD at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria with Dan Alistarh and is first author of GPTQ (ICLR 2023) and SparseGPT (ICML 2023).123

At a glance

Current role
Researcher
Company
OpenAI
Education
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Work listed
1
Sources cited
3
Profile reviewed

Accomplishments

  • GPTQ1
  • SparseGPT1
  • Marlin1

GPTQ and compression

GPTQ is a post-training quantization method that the paper shows can compress 100-billion-parameter models to 3- or 4-bit weights. Frantar's earlier homepage also lists SparseGPT, QMoE, and the Marlin INT4×FP16 inference kernel.12

Work and contributions

  • GPTQ Published research

    First author of GPTQ, a one-shot weight-quantization method for large generative transformers.12

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

Where they work

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References

3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 25, 2026 · data updated Oct 25, 2026

  1. Elias Frantar — aboutElias Frantar · Official page · accessed Oct 25, 2026
  2. Elias Frantar — GitHub profileGitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 25, 2026
  3. GPTQ (arXiv 2210.17323)arXiv · Paper · accessed Oct 25, 2026

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