diff --git a/neural_compressor/common/base_config.py b/neural_compressor/common/base_config.py
index 6007580d94e..41aeaca7ab3 100644
--- a/neural_compressor/common/base_config.py
+++ b/neural_compressor/common/base_config.py
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 import re
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from collections import OrderedDict
+from copy import deepcopy
+from itertools import product
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 from neural_compressor.common.logger import Logger
@@ -225,6 +227,57 @@ def __add__(self, other: BaseConfig) -> BaseConfig:
         else:
             return ComposableConfig(configs=[self, other])
 
+    def expand(self) -> List[BaseConfig]:
+        """Expand the config.
+
+        case 1
+            {
+                "global": { "weight_bits": [4, 6]}
+            }
+            expand to :
+            1st trial config:
+            {
+                "global": { "weight_bits": 4}
+            }
+            2nd trial config:
+            {
+                "global": { "weight_bits": 6}
+            }
+        case 2
+        # TODO (Yi) to support the expansion of config with `local`
+        {
+            "global": {
+                "weight_bits": [4, 6]
+            },
+            "local":
+            {
+                "fc1":{
+                    "weight_bits": [6, 8]
+                },
+                "fc2":{
+                    "weight_bits": [4]
+                }
+            }
+
+        } -> ?
+        """
+        config_list: List[BaseConfig] = []
+        params_list = self.params_list
+        params_dict = OrderedDict()
+        config = self
+        for param in params_list:
+            param_val = getattr(config, param)
+            # TODO (Yi) to handle param_val itself is a list
+            if isinstance(param_val, list):
+                params_dict[param] = param_val
+            else:
+                params_dict[param] = [param_val]
+        for params_values in product(*params_dict.values()):
+            new_config = self.__class__(**dict(zip(params_list, params_values)))
+            config_list.append(new_config)
+        logger.info(f"Expanded the {self.__class__.name} and got {len(config_list)} configs.")
+        return config_list
+
     def _get_op_name_op_type_config(self):
         op_type_config_dict = dict()
         op_name_config_dict = dict()
diff --git a/neural_compressor/common/base_tune.py b/neural_compressor/common/base_tune.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..69652d5856b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/neural_compressor/common/base_tune.py
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel Corporation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from abc import abstractmethod
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Union
+
+from neural_compressor.common.base_config import BaseConfig, ComposableConfig
+from neural_compressor.common.logger import Logger
+
+logger = Logger().get_logger()
+
+
+class FrameworkWrapper:
+    """Abstract base class for wrap framework's APIs.
+
+    FrameworkWrapper provides a uniform interface for encapsulating different framework's APIs.
+    This class is intended to be used by a `tuner` to obtain quantized models.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, model) -> None:
+        self.model = model
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def apply(self) -> Any:
+        """The entry to apply algorithms on a given model."""
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+class TuningObjectives:
+    EVAL_FN = "eval_fn"
+    WEIGHT = "weight"
+    FN_NAME = "name"
+    EVAL_FN_TEMPLATE: Dict[str, Any] = {EVAL_FN: None, WEIGHT: 1.0, FN_NAME: None}
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.eval_fn_registry: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
+
+    def evaluate(self, model) -> float:
+        """Evaluate the model using registered evaluation functions.
+
+        Args:
+            model: The fp32 model or quantized model.
+
+        Returns:
+            The overall result of all registered evaluation functions.
+        """
+        result = 0
+        for eval_pair in self.eval_fn_registry:
+            eval_fn = eval_pair[self.EVAL_FN]
+            eval_result = eval_fn(model)
+            result = self._update_the_objective_score(eval_pair, eval_result, result)
+        return result
+
+    def _update_the_objective_score(self, eval_pair, eval_result, overall_result) -> float:
+        # TODO update the result according to the weight and algo_name
+        return overall_result + eval_result * eval_pair[self.WEIGHT]
+
+    def get_number_of_tuning_objectives(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.eval_fn_registry)
+
+    def _set_eval_fn_registry(self, user_eval_fns: List[Dict]) -> None:
+        self.eval_fn_registry = [
+            {
+                self.EVAL_FN: user_eval_fn_pair[self.EVAL_FN],
+                self.WEIGHT: user_eval_fn_pair.get(self.WEIGHT, 1.0),
+                self.FN_NAME: user_eval_fn_pair.get(self.FN_NAME, user_eval_fn_pair[self.EVAL_FN].__name__),
+            }
+            for user_eval_fn_pair in user_eval_fns
+        ]
+
+    def set_eval_fn_registry(self, eval_fns: Optional[Union[Dict, List[Dict]]] = None) -> None:
+        if eval_fns is None:
+            return
+        elif isinstance(eval_fns, Dict):
+            eval_fns = [eval_fns]
+        elif isinstance(eval_fns, List):
+            assert all([isinstance(eval_fn_pair, Dict) for eval_fn_pair in eval_fns])
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"The eval_fns should be a dict or a list of dict, but got {type(eval_fns)}.")
+        self._set_eval_fn_registry(eval_fns)
+
+
+tuning_objectives = TuningObjectives()
+
+
+class BaseTuningConfig:
+    """Base Class for Tuning Criterion.
+
+    Args:
+        quant_configs: quantization configs. Default value is empty.
+        timeout: Tuning timeout (seconds). Default value is 0 which means early stop.
+        max_trials: Max tune times. Default value is 100. Combine with timeout field to decide when to exit.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, quant_configs=None, timeout=0, max_trials=100) -> None:
+        """Init a TuningCriterion object."""
+        self.quant_configs = quant_configs
+        self.timeout = timeout
+        self.max_trials = max_trials
+
+
+class Tuner:
+    def __init__(
+        self, tune_config: BaseTuningConfig, tuning_objectives: TuningObjectives, fwk_wrapper: FrameworkWrapper
+    ) -> None:
+        self.tune_config = tune_config
+        self.tuning_objectives = tuning_objectives
+        self.fwk_wrapper = fwk_wrapper
+        self._post_init()
+
+    def _post_init(self) -> None:
+        # check the number of evaluation functions
+        num_tuning_objectives = self.tuning_objectives.get_number_of_tuning_objectives()
+        assert (
+            num_tuning_objectives > 0
+        ), "Please ensure that you register at least one evaluation metric for auto-tune."
+        logger.info(f"There are {num_tuning_objectives} tuning objectives.")
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def parse_quant_config(quant_config: BaseConfig) -> List[BaseConfig]:
+        if isinstance(quant_config, ComposableConfig):
+            result = []
+            for q_config in quant_config.config_list:
+                result += q_config.expand()
+            return result
+        else:
+            return quant_config.expand()
+
+    def parse_quant_configs(self) -> List[BaseConfig]:
+        quant_config_list = []
+        for quant_config in self.tune_config.quant_configs:
+            quant_config_list.extend(Tuner.parse_quant_config(quant_config))
+        return quant_config_list
+
+    def get_best_model(self, q_model, objective_score: Union[float, int]) -> Any:
+        # TODO(Yi) enable it at the next PR
+        pass
+
+    def get_tuning_objective_score(self, model) -> float:
+        eval_result = self.tuning_objectives.evaluate(model)
+        return eval_result
+
+    def search(self) -> Any:
+        for config in self.parse_quant_configs():
+            logger.info(f"config {config}")
+            q_model = self.fwk_wrapper.apply(quant_config=config)
+            if self.get_best_model(q_model, self.get_tuning_objective_score(q_model)):
+                return q_model
diff --git a/neural_compressor/torch/__init__.py b/neural_compressor/torch/__init__.py
index a9f9d6731e3..57cfe472297 100644
--- a/neural_compressor/torch/__init__.py
+++ b/neural_compressor/torch/__init__.py
@@ -22,3 +22,5 @@
     GPTQConfig,
     get_default_gptq_config,
 )
+
+from neural_compressor.torch.tune import autotune, TuningConfig, get_default_tune_config
diff --git a/neural_compressor/torch/quantization/quantize.py b/neural_compressor/torch/quantization/quantize.py
index ecf813331ef..2a1f1ca599b 100644
--- a/neural_compressor/torch/quantization/quantize.py
+++ b/neural_compressor/torch/quantization/quantize.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def quantize(
     else:
         assert isinstance(
             quant_config, BaseConfig
-        ), "Please pass a dict or config instance as the quantization configuration."
+        ), f"Please pass a dict or config instance as the quantization configuration, but got {type(quant_config)}."
     logger.info(f"Quantize model with config: \n {quant_config.to_json_string()} \n")
     # select quantization algo according to config
 
diff --git a/neural_compressor/torch/tune.py b/neural_compressor/torch/tune.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..656d6c5b1be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/neural_compressor/torch/tune.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel Corporation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import torch
+
+from neural_compressor.common.base_tune import BaseTuningConfig, FrameworkWrapper, Tuner, tuning_objectives
+from neural_compressor.common.logger import Logger
+from neural_compressor.torch.quantization.config import GPTQConfig, RTNWeightQuantConfig
+
+logger = Logger().get_logger()
+
+
+def get_default_tuning_config():
+    # TODO (Yi) support it in the next PR
+    return None
+
+
+class TorchWrapper(FrameworkWrapper):
+    """Concrete implementation of `FrameworkWrapper` for PyTorch models."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self, model: torch.nn.Module, run_fn: Optional[Callable] = None, run_args: Optional[Tuple] = None
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__(model)
+        self.run_fn = run_fn
+        self.run_args = run_args
+
+    def apply(self, quant_config):
+        """The entry to apply quantization algorithms on a given a model."""
+        logger.info(f"apply quant_config: {quant_config}.")
+        from neural_compressor.torch import quantize
+
+        q_model = quantize(model=self.model, quant_config=quant_config, run_fn=self.run_fn, run_args=self.run_args)
+        return q_model
+
+
+class TuningConfig(BaseTuningConfig):
+    def __init__(self, quant_configs=None, timeout=0, max_trials=100):
+        super().__init__(quant_configs, timeout, max_trials)
+
+
+def autotune(
+    model: torch.nn.Module,
+    tune_config: TuningConfig,
+    eval_fns: Optional[Union[Dict, List[Dict]]] = None,
+    run_fn=None,
+    run_args=None,
+):
+    tuning_objectives.set_eval_fn_registry(eval_fns)
+    torch_wrapper = TorchWrapper(model, run_fn, run_args)
+    tuner = Tuner(tune_config=tune_config, tuning_objectives=tuning_objectives, fwk_wrapper=torch_wrapper)
+    best_qmodel = tuner.search()
+    return best_qmodel
+
+
+def get_default_tune_config():
+    # TODO use the registered default tuning config in the next PR
+    return TuningConfig(quant_configs=[GPTQConfig(weight_bits=[4, 8]), RTNWeightQuantConfig(weight_bits=[4, 8])])
diff --git a/test/3x/tensorflow/test_config.py b/test/3x/tensorflow/test_config.py
index fa3d81cade5..287a86e4cff 100644
--- a/test/3x/tensorflow/test_config.py
+++ b/test/3x/tensorflow/test_config.py
@@ -297,5 +297,24 @@ def test_config_to_dict(self):
         self.assertIn("local", config_dict)
 
 
+class TestQuantConfigForAutotune(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_expand_config(self):
+        # test the expand functionalities, the user is not aware it
+        from neural_compressor.tensorflow import StaticQuantConfig
+
+        quant_configs = StaticQuantConfig(
+            weight_dtype="int8",
+            weight_sym=True,
+            weight_granularity=["per_channel", "per_tensor"],
+            act_dtype="int8",
+            act_sym=True,
+            act_granularity="per_channel",
+        )
+
+        expand_config_list = StaticQuantConfig.expand(quant_configs)
+        self.assertEqual(expand_config_list[0].weight_granularity, "per_channel")
+        self.assertEqual(expand_config_list[1].weight_granularity, "per_tensor")
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/test/3x/torch/test_autotune.py b/test/3x/torch/test_autotune.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..876311355f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/3x/torch/test_autotune.py
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+import unittest
+
+import transformers
+
+from neural_compressor.common.logger import Logger
+
+logger = Logger().get_logger()
+from functools import wraps
+
+import torch
+
+
+def reset_tuning_target(test_func):
+    @wraps(test_func)
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+        # Reset tuning targets before running the test
+        from neural_compressor.common.base_tune import tuning_objectives
+
+        tuning_objectives.eval_fn_registry = []
+        return test_func(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    return wrapper
+
+
+def build_simple_torch_model():
+    class Model(torch.nn.Module):
+        def __init__(self):
+            super(Model, self).__init__()
+            self.fc1 = torch.nn.Linear(30, 50)
+            self.fc2 = torch.nn.Linear(50, 30)
+            self.fc3 = torch.nn.Linear(30, 5)
+
+        def forward(self, x):
+            out = self.fc1(x)
+            out = self.fc2(out)
+            out = self.fc3(out)
+            return out
+
+    model = Model()
+    return model
+
+
+class TestAutoTune(unittest.TestCase):
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(self):
+        self.fp32_model = build_simple_torch_model()
+        self.input = torch.randn(1, 30)
+        self.gptj = transformers.AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+            "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-GPTJForCausalLM",
+        )
+        self.lm_input = torch.ones([1, 10], dtype=torch.long)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def tearDownClass(self):
+        pass
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        # print the test name
+        logger.info(f"Running TestAutoTune test: {self.id()}")
+
+    @reset_tuning_target
+    def test_autotune_api(self):
+        logger.info("test_autotune_api")
+        from neural_compressor.common.base_tune import tuning_objectives
+        from neural_compressor.torch import RTNWeightQuantConfig, TuningConfig, autotune
+
+        def eval_acc_fn(model) -> float:
+            return 1.0
+
+        custom_tune_config = TuningConfig(quant_configs=[RTNWeightQuantConfig(weight_bits=[4, 6])], max_trials=2)
+        best_model = autotune(
+            model=build_simple_torch_model(), tune_config=custom_tune_config, eval_fns=[{"eval_fn": eval_acc_fn}]
+        )
+        self.assertIsNone(best_model)
+        self.assertEqual(len(tuning_objectives.eval_fn_registry), 1)
+
+    @reset_tuning_target
+    def test_autotune_api_2(self):
+        logger.info("test_autotune_api")
+        from neural_compressor.common.base_tune import tuning_objectives
+        from neural_compressor.torch import RTNWeightQuantConfig, TuningConfig, autotune
+
+        def eval_acc_fn(model) -> float:
+            return 1.0
+
+        def eval_perf_fn(model) -> float:
+            return 1.0
+
+        eval_fns = [
+            {"eval_fn": eval_acc_fn, "weight": 0.5, "name": "accuracy"},
+            {
+                "eval_fn": eval_perf_fn,
+                "weight": 0.5,
+            },
+        ]
+
+        custom_tune_config = TuningConfig(quant_configs=[RTNWeightQuantConfig(weight_bits=[4, 6])], max_trials=2)
+        best_model = autotune(model=build_simple_torch_model(), tune_config=custom_tune_config, eval_fns=eval_fns)
+        self.assertIsNone(best_model)
+        self.assertEqual(len(tuning_objectives.eval_fn_registry), 2)
+
+    @reset_tuning_target
+    def test_autotune_not_eval_func(self):
+        logger.info("test_autotune_api")
+        from neural_compressor.torch import RTNWeightQuantConfig, TuningConfig, autotune
+
+        custom_tune_config = TuningConfig(quant_configs=[RTNWeightQuantConfig(weight_bits=[4, 6])], max_trials=2)
+
+        # Use assertRaises to check that an AssertionError is raised
+        with self.assertRaises(AssertionError) as context:
+            best_model = autotune(model=build_simple_torch_model(), tune_config=custom_tune_config)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            str(context.exception), "Please ensure that you register at least one evaluation metric for auto-tune."
+        )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/test/3x/torch/test_config.py b/test/3x/torch/test_config.py
index e00d6cdad17..0e0925685c0 100644
--- a/test/3x/torch/test_config.py
+++ b/test/3x/torch/test_config.py
@@ -324,5 +324,16 @@ def test_gptq_config(self):
         self.assertEqual(gptq_config1.to_dict(), gptq_config2.to_dict())
 
 
+class TestQuantConfigForAutotune(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_expand_config(self):
+        # test the expand functionalities, the user is not aware it
+        from neural_compressor.torch import RTNWeightQuantConfig
+
+        tune_config = RTNWeightQuantConfig(weight_bits=[4, 6])
+        expand_config_list = RTNWeightQuantConfig.expand(tune_config)
+        self.assertEqual(expand_config_list[0].weight_bits, 4)
+        self.assertEqual(expand_config_list[1].weight_bits, 6)
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()