From 5610b1bf90df025afc779109ef126ec2a417182b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Douglas <38992547+matthewdouglas@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:51:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate igemm, batched_igemm, check_matmul APIs

---
 bitsandbytes/functional.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bitsandbytes/functional.py b/bitsandbytes/functional.py
index bb56e9d50..33b2cd9ac 100644
--- a/bitsandbytes/functional.py
+++ b/bitsandbytes/functional.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 from torch import Tensor
+from typing_extensions import deprecated
 
 from bitsandbytes.utils import pack_dict_to_tensor, unpack_tensor_to_dict
 
@@ -1211,6 +1212,7 @@ def optimizer_update_8bit_blockwise(
     )
 
 
+@deprecated("This function is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.", category=FutureWarning)
 def check_matmul(A, B, out, transposed_A, transposed_B, expected_type=torch.int8):
     if not torch.cuda.is_initialized():
         torch.cuda.init()
@@ -1332,6 +1334,7 @@ def gemv_4bit(
     )
 
 
+@deprecated("This function is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.", category=FutureWarning)
 def igemm(
     A: Tensor,
     B: Tensor,
@@ -1433,6 +1436,7 @@ def igemm(
     return out
 
 
+@deprecated("This function is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.", category=FutureWarning)
 def batched_igemm(
     A: Tensor,
     B: Tensor,