Release v2.2.0 · huggingface/optimum-intel

New Model Support

Mistral 3 (#1627 by @kyoui-dev)
DeepSeek-OCR-2 (#1793 by @openvino-agent)
Meta Muse Glimmer (#1924 by @rkazants)
Ouro (#1783 by @openvino-dev-samples)
Fun-ASR (#1801 by @openvino-agent)
LTX2 text-to-audio-video (#1733 by @anatyrova) and image-to-video (#1885 by @goyaladitya05)
LTX-Video image-to-video (#1762 by @goyaladitya05)
Qwen-Image (#1790 by @openvino-agent)
Z-Image (#1946 by @openvino-agent)
DFlash draft models for speculative decoding (#1756 by @ofirzaf), including VLM support (#1926 by @ofirzaf, #1971 by @rkazants)
Multi-Token Prediction heads for Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6 (including MoE flavors) and Qwen3.8-27B (#1814 by @openvino-agent, #1971 by @rkazants)
Video input for Gemma 4 and Gemma 4 Unified (#1951 by @yatarkan)

Added default int4 compression configs for gemma-4-12B-it (#1952 by @anzr299) and Muse-Glimmer-30B (#1929
by @andreyanufr)
Fixed Gemma 4 Unified vision embedding fp16 overflow on GPU by setting an activation scale factor (#1973 by @rkazants)
Fixed chat template application for Gemma 4 Unified (#1895 by @popovaan)
Fixed Mamba 2 selective SSM representation for Granite 4.0 hybrid (#1789 by @openvino-agent)
Optimized Qwen3-Omni-MoE Talker MoE export (#1880 by @sgonorov)
Fixed the inputs_embeds input of the Qwen3-VL Eagle draft model (#1932 by @popovaan)
Fixed Fun-ASR model type (#1925 by @popovaan) and added export and auto-compression tests (#1874
by @LauraGPT)
Fixed calibration dataset preparation for FLUX.2-klein (#1923 by @andrey-churkin)
Added the missing --group-size-fallback argument to the export CLI (#1845 by @andrey-churkin)
Removed the _LTX2AttnProcessorWithEps patch for LTX2 (#1928 by @anatyrova)
Removed the patch_16bit_model flag from the export path (#1930 by @anatyrova)
Bumped the minimum NNCF version to v3.3 and unpinned safetensors (#1916 by @andrey-churkin, #1918 by @echarlaix)

Added an OpenVINO export space to the documentation (#1882 by @echarlaix)
Added agent skills for optimum and tiny test model creation (#1848 by @Mohamed-Ashraf273)
Removed unneeded transformers version checks in tests (#1933 by @popovaan)
CI: run OpenVINO tests on release-branch pull requests (#1892), restore Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.5-MoE in the preview workflow (#1891), sync built docs to the hf-doc-build bucket (#1898 by @echarlaix)

Compatible with transformers>=4.51,<5.6