diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml b/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
index eaacbbb630..f96ae68488 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
             "*diffusion*",
             "*quantization*",
           ]
-        transformers-version: ["4.45.0", "latest"]
+        transformers-version: ["4.45.0", "4.46.0", "latest"]
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
diff --git a/optimum/exporters/openvino/model_configs.py b/optimum/exporters/openvino/model_configs.py
index b8ffcdcf26..6c1797e937 100644
--- a/optimum/exporters/openvino/model_configs.py
+++ b/optimum/exporters/openvino/model_configs.py
@@ -198,10 +198,6 @@ def init_model_configs():
         "AutoModelForImageTextToText",
     )
 
-    TasksManager._TRANSFORMERS_TASKS_TO_MODEL_LOADERS[
-        "image-text-to-text"
-    ] = TasksManager._TRANSFORMERS_TASKS_TO_MODEL_LOADERS["text-generation"]
-
     TasksManager._TRANSFORMERS_TASKS_TO_MODEL_LOADERS["video-text-to-text"] = "AutoModelForVision2Seq"
 
     if is_diffusers_available() and "fill" not in TasksManager._DIFFUSERS_TASKS_TO_MODEL_LOADERS:
diff --git a/optimum/intel/openvino/quantization.py b/optimum/intel/openvino/quantization.py
index 546f87f345..8a100b83fa 100644
--- a/optimum/intel/openvino/quantization.py
+++ b/optimum/intel/openvino/quantization.py
@@ -40,11 +40,9 @@
 from transformers.pytorch_utils import Conv1D
 from transformers.utils import is_accelerate_available
 
-from optimum.exporters.tasks import TasksManager
 from optimum.quantization_base import OptimumQuantizer
 from optimum.utils.logging import warn_once
 
-from ..utils.constant import _TASK_ALIASES
 from ..utils.import_utils import (
     DATASETS_IMPORT_ERROR,
     _nncf_version,
@@ -1142,15 +1140,20 @@ def __init__(self, model: OVModel, task: Optional[str] = None, seed: int = 42, *
         Args:
             model (`OVModel`):
                 The [OVModel](https://huggingface.co/docs/optimum-intel/en/openvino/reference) to quantize.
-            task (`str`, defaults to None):
-                The task defining the model topology used for the ONNX export.
             seed (`int`, defaults to 42):
                 The random seed to use when shuffling the calibration dataset.
         """
         super().__init__()
         self.model = model
-        self.task = task
         self.dataset_builder = OVCalibrationDatasetBuilder(model, seed)
+        self.task = task
+        if self.task is not None:
+            logger.warning(f"The `task` argument is ignored and will be remvoed in optimum-intel v1.27")
+
+    @property
+    def task(self) -> Dict[str, Union[openvino.Model, openvino.runtime.CompiledModel]]:
+        logger.warning("The `task` attribute is deprecated and will be removed in v1.27.")
+        return self.task
 
     @classmethod
     def from_pretrained(cls, model: OVModel, **kwargs):
@@ -1196,7 +1199,7 @@ def quantize(
         >>> from optimum.intel import OVQuantizer, OVModelForCausalLM
         >>> from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
         >>> model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("databricks/dolly-v2-3b")
-        >>> quantizer = OVQuantizer.from_pretrained(model, task="text-generation")
+        >>> quantizer = OVQuantizer.from_pretrained(model)
         >>> ov_config = OVConfig(quantization_config=OVWeightQuantizationConfig())
         >>> quantizer.quantize(ov_config=ov_config, save_directory="./quantized_model")
         >>> optimized_model = OVModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("./quantized_model")
@@ -1208,7 +1211,7 @@ def quantize(
         >>> model = OVModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english", export=True)
         >>> # or
         >>> model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english")
-        >>> quantizer = OVQuantizer.from_pretrained(model, task="text-classification")
+        >>> quantizer = OVQuantizer.from_pretrained(model)
         >>> ov_config = OVConfig(quantization_config=OVQuantizationConfig())
         >>> quantizer.quantize(calibration_dataset=dataset, ov_config=ov_config, save_directory="./quantized_model")
         >>> optimized_model = OVModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("./quantized_model")
@@ -1454,22 +1457,6 @@ def _save_pretrained(model: openvino.Model, output_path: str):
         compress_quantize_weights_transformation(model)
         openvino.save_model(model, output_path, compress_to_fp16=False)
 
-    def _set_task(self):
-        if self.task is None:
-            self.task = TasksManager.infer_task_from_model(self.model.config._name_or_path)
-            if self.task is None:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "The task defining the model topology could not be extracted and needs to be specified for the ONNX export."
-                )
-
-        self.task = _TASK_ALIASES.get(self.task, self.task)
-
-        if self.task == "text2text-generation":
-            raise ValueError("Seq2Seq models are currently not supported for post-training static quantization.")
-
-        if self.task == "image-to-text":
-            raise ValueError("Image2Text models are currently not supported for post-training static quantization.")
-
     def get_calibration_dataset(
         self,
         dataset_name: str,