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Model-Optimizer/docs/source/announcements
realAsma 8c04ce6ee2 docs: add AutoQuantize mixed-precision search blog (#1979)
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: documentation.

Adds the AutoQuantize technical blog to the announcements system
introduced by #1971.

- Preserves the source derivation, deployment-aware search details,
results, usage example, and references in native Sphinx RST.
- Adds the MMLU accuracy-versus-effective-bits figure as a losslessly
optimized asset.
- Adds a newest-first landing-page card and AutoQuantize filter.
- Credits the authors in this order: Asma Beevi K T, Wei Ming, Frida
Hou, Juhi Mittal, Jenny Chen, Ajinkya Rasane, Meng Xin.

This is a stacked PR targeting the branch for #1971. After #1971 merges,
this PR can be retargeted to main.

### Usage

N/A; documentation only.

### Testing

- Focused pre-commit hooks on all three changed files.
- git diff --check.
- Focused Sphinx HTML build for the announcement and landing page.
- Rendered-output checks for equations, table, Python code block, image
and alt text, references, external links, card, filter, and exact author
order.
- Full fail-on-warning build was attempted; remaining warnings were
unrelated optional autodoc environment warnings.

### Before your PR is "Ready for review"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in CONTRIBUTING.md: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A
- Did you update Changelog?: N/A
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: N/A

### Additional Information

Depends on #1971.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Documentation**
- Added a comprehensive announcement introducing AutoQuantize for
gradient-based mixed-precision optimization.
- Documented sensitivity scoring, effective-bits cost modeling,
deployment-aware grouping, benchmark results, usage examples, future
plans, and references.
- Added the announcement to the documentation homepage with an August
24, 2026 release card from the Model Optimizer Team.
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Signed-off-by: realAsma <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
2026-08-26 21:49:45 +00:00
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