The GGUF file format is typically used to store models for inference with [GGML](https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml) and supports a variety of block wise quantization options. Diffusers supports loading checkpoints prequantized and saved in the GGUF format via `from_single_file` loading with Model classes. Loading GGUF checkpoints via Pipelines is currently not supported.  
The following example will load the [FLUX.1 DEV](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev) transformer model using the GGUF Q2_K quantization variant.  
Before starting please install gguf in your environment  
```shell
pip install -U gguf
```  
Since GGUF is a single file format, use [`~FromSingleFileMixin.from_single_file`] to load the model and pass in the [`GGUFQuantizationConfig`].  
When using GGUF checkpoints, the quantized weights remain in a low memory `dtype`(typically `torch.uint8`) and are dynamically dequantized and cast to the configured `compute_dtype` during each module's forward pass through the model. The `GGUFQuantizationConfig` allows you to set the `compute_dtype`.  
The functions used for dynamic dequantizatation are based on the great work done by [city96](https://github.com/city96/ComfyUI-GGUF), who created the Pytorch ports of the original [`numpy`](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/gguf-py/gguf/quants.py) implementation by [compilade](https://github.com/compilade).  
```python
import torch

from diffusers import FluxPipeline, FluxTransformer2DModel, GGUFQuantizationConfig

ckpt_path = (
"https://huggingface.co/city96/FLUX.1-dev-gguf/blob/main/flux1-dev-Q2_K.gguf"
)
transformer = FluxTransformer2DModel.from_single_file(
ckpt_path,
quantization_config=GGUFQuantizationConfig(compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16),
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
pipe = FluxPipeline.from_pretrained(
"black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev",
transformer=transformer,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
prompt = "A cat holding a sign that says hello world"
image = pipe(prompt, generator=torch.manual_seed(0)).images[0]
image.save("flux-gguf.png")
```
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