Intel® Gaudi® AI Accelerators Examples for Training and Inference
January 8, 2026 · View on GitHub
Model List and Performance Data
Please visit this page for performance information.
This repository is a collection of models that have been ported to run on Intel Gaudi AI accelerators. They are intended as examples, and will be reasonably optimized for performance while still being easy to read.
See Community section for other projects with models ported and optimized for Intel Gaudi AI accelerators.
Computer Vision
| Models | Framework | Validated on Gaudi 2 | Validated on Gaudi 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ResNet50 | PyTorch | Training (compile), Inference (compile) | Training (compile)*, Inference (compile) |
| ResNeXt101 | PyTorch | Training (compile) | Training (compile) |
| YOLOX | PyTorch | Inference | Inference |
*Disclaimer: only on 8x **Disclaimer: only functional checks done
Natural Language Processing
| Models | Framework | Validated on Gaudi 2 | Validated on Gaudi 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERT Pretraining | PyTorch | Training (compile) | - |
| BERT Finetuning | PyTorch | Training, Inference (compile) | Inference (compile)* |
| DeepSpeed BERT-1.5B, BERT-5B | PyTorch | Training (compile) | - |
*Disclaimer: only bf16
Reporting Bugs/Feature Requests
We welcome you to use the GitHub issue tracker to report bugs or suggest features.
When filing an issue, please check existing open, or recently closed, issues to make sure somebody else hasn't already reported the issue. Please try to include as much information as you can. Details like these are incredibly useful:
- A reproducible test case or series of steps
- The version of our code being used
- Any modifications you've made relevant to the bug
- Anything unusual about your environment or deployment
Community
Other projects with models ported and optimized for Intel Gaudi AI accelerators.
Optimum Habana
HuggingFace models for finetuning and inference are available in Optimum Habana project https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-habana/ and as model cards at https://huggingface.co/Habana.
vLLM
Models optimized for inferece with vLLM are available in HabanaAI/vllm-fork.
Megatron-LM
LLM training models like Llama or Mixtral are available in Megatron-LM's fork: HabanaAI/Megatron-LM.
Megatron-DeepSpeed
⚠️Note that this project will be deprecated and replaced with Megatron-LM.
LLM training models like Llama or Mixtral are available in Megatron-DeepSpeed's fork: HabanaAI/Megatron-DeepSpeed.