diff --git a/invokeai/app/invocations/flux_text_to_image.py b/invokeai/app/invocations/flux_text_to_image.py
index a680908461..0a7290214d 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/invocations/flux_text_to_image.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/invocations/flux_text_to_image.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from diffusers import AutoencoderKL, FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler
 from diffusers.models.transformers.transformer_flux import FluxTransformer2DModel
 from diffusers.pipelines.flux.pipeline_flux import FluxPipeline
 from optimum.quanto import qfloat8
-from optimum.quanto.models import QuantizedDiffusersModel, QuantizedTransformersModel
 from PIL import Image
 from transformers import CLIPTextModel, CLIPTokenizer, T5EncoderModel, T5TokenizerFast
 from transformers.models.auto import AutoModelForTextEncoding
@@ -15,17 +14,19 @@ from invokeai.app.invocations.baseinvocation import BaseInvocation, invocation
 from invokeai.app.invocations.fields import InputField, WithBoard, WithMetadata
 from invokeai.app.invocations.primitives import ImageOutput
 from invokeai.app.services.shared.invocation_context import InvocationContext
+from invokeai.backend.quantization.fast_quantized_diffusion_model import FastQuantizedDiffusersModel
+from invokeai.backend.quantization.fast_quantized_transformers_model import FastQuantizedTransformersModel
 from invokeai.backend.util.devices import TorchDevice
 
 TFluxModelKeys = Literal["flux-schnell"]
 FLUX_MODELS: dict[TFluxModelKeys, str] = {"flux-schnell": "black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell"}
 
 
-class QuantizedFluxTransformer2DModel(QuantizedDiffusersModel):
+class QuantizedFluxTransformer2DModel(FastQuantizedDiffusersModel):
     base_class = FluxTransformer2DModel
 
 
-class QuantizedModelForTextEncoding(QuantizedTransformersModel):
+class QuantizedModelForTextEncoding(FastQuantizedTransformersModel):
     auto_class = AutoModelForTextEncoding
 
 
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/quantization/fast_quantized_diffusion_model.py b/invokeai/backend/quantization/fast_quantized_diffusion_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0759984bf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/invokeai/backend/quantization/fast_quantized_diffusion_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+import json
+import os
+from typing import Union
+
+from diffusers.models.model_loading_utils import load_state_dict
+from diffusers.utils import (
+    CONFIG_NAME,
+    SAFE_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME,
+    SAFETENSORS_WEIGHTS_NAME,
+    _get_checkpoint_shard_files,
+    is_accelerate_available,
+)
+from optimum.quanto.models import QuantizedDiffusersModel
+from optimum.quanto.models.shared_dict import ShardedStateDict
+
+from invokeai.backend.requantize import requantize
+
+
+class FastQuantizedDiffusersModel(QuantizedDiffusersModel):
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, model_name_or_path: Union[str, os.PathLike]):
+        """We override the `from_pretrained()` method in order to use our custom `requantize()` implementation."""
+        if cls.base_class is None:
+            raise ValueError("The `base_class` attribute needs to be configured.")
+
+        if not is_accelerate_available():
+            raise ValueError("Reloading a quantized diffusers model requires the accelerate library.")
+        from accelerate import init_empty_weights
+
+        if os.path.isdir(model_name_or_path):
+            # Look for a quantization map
+            qmap_path = os.path.join(model_name_or_path, cls._qmap_name())
+            if not os.path.exists(qmap_path):
+                raise ValueError(f"No quantization map found in {model_name_or_path}: is this a quantized model ?")
+
+            # Look for original model config file.
+            model_config_path = os.path.join(model_name_or_path, CONFIG_NAME)
+            if not os.path.exists(model_config_path):
+                raise ValueError(f"{CONFIG_NAME} not found in {model_name_or_path}.")
+
+            with open(qmap_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                qmap = json.load(f)
+
+            with open(model_config_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                original_model_cls_name = json.load(f)["_class_name"]
+            configured_cls_name = cls.base_class.__name__
+            if configured_cls_name != original_model_cls_name:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Configured base class ({configured_cls_name}) differs from what was derived from the provided configuration ({original_model_cls_name})."
+                )
+
+            # Create an empty model
+            config = cls.base_class.load_config(model_name_or_path)
+            with init_empty_weights():
+                model = cls.base_class.from_config(config)
+
+            # Look for the index of a sharded checkpoint
+            checkpoint_file = os.path.join(model_name_or_path, SAFE_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME)
+            if os.path.exists(checkpoint_file):
+                # Convert the checkpoint path to a list of shards
+                _, sharded_metadata = _get_checkpoint_shard_files(model_name_or_path, checkpoint_file)
+                # Create a mapping for the sharded safetensor files
+                state_dict = ShardedStateDict(model_name_or_path, sharded_metadata["weight_map"])
+            else:
+                # Look for a single checkpoint file
+                checkpoint_file = os.path.join(model_name_or_path, SAFETENSORS_WEIGHTS_NAME)
+                if not os.path.exists(checkpoint_file):
+                    raise ValueError(f"No safetensor weights found in {model_name_or_path}.")
+                # Get state_dict from model checkpoint
+                state_dict = load_state_dict(checkpoint_file)
+
+            # Requantize and load quantized weights from state_dict
+            requantize(model, state_dict=state_dict, quantization_map=qmap)
+            model.eval()
+            return cls(model)
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Reloading quantized models directly from the hub is not supported yet.")
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/quantization/fast_quantized_transformers_model.py b/invokeai/backend/quantization/fast_quantized_transformers_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ce5cc7a3a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/invokeai/backend/quantization/fast_quantized_transformers_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import json
+import os
+from typing import Union
+
+from optimum.quanto.models import QuantizedTransformersModel
+from optimum.quanto.models.shared_dict import ShardedStateDict
+from transformers import AutoConfig
+from transformers.modeling_utils import get_checkpoint_shard_files, load_state_dict
+from transformers.utils import SAFE_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME, SAFE_WEIGHTS_NAME, is_accelerate_available
+
+from invokeai.backend.requantize import requantize
+
+
+class FastQuantizedTransformersModel(QuantizedTransformersModel):
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, model_name_or_path: Union[str, os.PathLike]):
+        """We override the `from_pretrained()` method in order to use our custom `requantize()` implementation."""
+        if cls.auto_class is None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Quantized models cannot be reloaded using {cls}: use a specialized quantized class such as QuantizedModelForCausalLM instead."
+            )
+        if not is_accelerate_available():
+            raise ValueError("Reloading a quantized transformers model requires the accelerate library.")
+        from accelerate import init_empty_weights
+
+        if os.path.isdir(model_name_or_path):
+            # Look for a quantization map
+            qmap_path = os.path.join(model_name_or_path, cls._qmap_name())
+            if not os.path.exists(qmap_path):
+                raise ValueError(f"No quantization map found in {model_name_or_path}: is this a quantized model ?")
+            with open(qmap_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                qmap = json.load(f)
+            # Create an empty model
+            config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path)
+            with init_empty_weights():
+                model = cls.auto_class.from_config(config)
+            # Look for the index of a sharded checkpoint
+            checkpoint_file = os.path.join(model_name_or_path, SAFE_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME)
+            if os.path.exists(checkpoint_file):
+                # Convert the checkpoint path to a list of shards
+                checkpoint_file, sharded_metadata = get_checkpoint_shard_files(model_name_or_path, checkpoint_file)
+                # Create a mapping for the sharded safetensor files
+                state_dict = ShardedStateDict(model_name_or_path, sharded_metadata["weight_map"])
+            else:
+                # Look for a single checkpoint file
+                checkpoint_file = os.path.join(model_name_or_path, SAFE_WEIGHTS_NAME)
+                if not os.path.exists(checkpoint_file):
+                    raise ValueError(f"No safetensor weights found in {model_name_or_path}.")
+                # Get state_dict from model checkpoint
+                state_dict = load_state_dict(checkpoint_file)
+            # Requantize and load quantized weights from state_dict
+            requantize(model, state_dict=state_dict, quantization_map=qmap)
+            if getattr(model.config, "tie_word_embeddings", True):
+                # Tie output weight embeddings to input weight embeddings
+                # Note that if they were quantized they would NOT be tied
+                model.tie_weights()
+            # Set model in evaluation mode as it is done in transformers
+            model.eval()
+            return cls(model)
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Reloading quantized models directly from the hub is not supported yet.")