[microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct](microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct) converted to OpenVINO with INT8 weight compression.

Quick start, to download this model and run chat inference:

```
pip install huggingface-hub[cli] openvino-genai==2025.2
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helena-intel/snippets/refs/heads/main/llm_chat/python/llm_chat_manual.py
huggingface-cli download helenai/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-ov-int8 --local-dir Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-ov-int8
python llm_chat_manual.py Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-ov-int8 CPU
```

In the last line, change CPU to GPU to run on Intel GPU.

Model export command (to export this model yourself):

```
pip install --upgrade optimum-intel[openvino]
optimum-cli export openvino -m microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct --weight-format int8 Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-ov-int8
```

This model was exported with the following versions (from [modelinfo.py](https://github.com/helena-intel/snippets/blob/main/model_info/modelinfo.py))

```
openvino_version         : 2025.2.0-19140-c01cd93e24d-releases/2025/2
nncf_version             : 2.16.0
optimum_intel_version    : 1.23.1
optimum_version          : 1.25.3
pytorch_version          : 2.7.1
transformers_version     : 4.51.3
```