Workflow-Execution-Engines

TensorFlow is a comprehensive machine learning framework designed for the construction, training, and deployment of complex mathematical models. It utilizes a graph-based execution model that represents operations as directed acyclic graphs, enabling automatic differentiation and efficient parallel processing. The system provides high-level interfaces for defining neural network architectures, alongside a robust engine for managing multidimensional array structures and tensor mathematics. The framework distinguishes itself through a scalable distributed runtime that orchestrates workloads acr

Ktransformers is a comprehensive framework designed for the operation, fine-tuning, and serving of large language models. It functions as a heterogeneous inference engine and quantized execution runtime, enabling the deployment of massive models by distributing computational workloads across both CPU and GPU resources. This architecture allows users to bypass local memory constraints, making it possible to run and train models that exceed the capacity of a single device. The project distinguishes itself through specialized support for sparse architectures, particularly mixture-of-experts mode

llama-cpp-python provides a Python interface for the llama.cpp library, enabling the execution of large language models with hardware acceleration. It functions as a GGUF model loader and a structured text generator capable of running inference servers and multimodal runtimes for processing both text and image inputs. The project distinguishes itself through a local inference server that exposes model capabilities via an OpenAI-compatible web API. It supports advanced execution techniques including speculative decoding, weight quantization, and layer-based GPU offloading to manage memory acro

This project is a cross-platform machine learning inference engine designed to execute pre-trained models across diverse operating systems and hardware environments. It functions as a standardized execution framework that manages the entire lifecycle of model inference, from loading and graph optimization to hardware-accelerated execution and generative sequence management. The runtime distinguishes itself through a highly modular architecture that decouples model logic from hardware-specific kernels. By utilizing an execution provider abstraction, it enables developers to offload computation

Airllm is a framework designed to execute and fine-tune large language models on consumer-grade hardware. By employing layer-wise model decomposition and memory-efficient loading techniques, the engine enables the operation of massive models that would otherwise exceed available system or video memory. The project distinguishes itself through a suite of optimization strategies that balance memory footprint with performance. It utilizes block-wise weight quantization and asynchronous layer prefetching to reduce resource consumption and hide data transfer latency. Additionally, the framework su

LightLLM is a high-performance serving framework for deploying and executing large language models. It functions as a multi-GPU inference engine and server capable of handling dense architectures, mixture-of-experts designs, and multimodal models that process both text and images. The system is distinguished by its specialized support for Mixture-of-Experts models using expert parallelism and fused kernels. It implements structured text generation through deterministic state machines and pushdown automata to enforce precise output formats. To optimize throughput, the framework employs specula

LiteRT is a runtime and API for executing machine learning and generative AI models on mobile, desktop, and IoT hardware. It consists of an inference engine and a specialized environment for running quantized large language and diffusion models locally on edge hardware. The system includes an ahead-of-time model compiler that translates models into hardware-specific bytecode to reduce startup latency and memory overhead. It provides a unified interface for Neural Processing Units with automatic fallback routing to CPUs or GPUs when specific subgraph support is unavailable. An edge model conve

MNN is a high-performance inference engine and framework designed for on-device machine learning. It provides a comprehensive environment for executing, optimizing, and deploying neural network models directly on mobile and resource-constrained edge devices. The framework distinguishes itself through a robust model optimization toolkit that supports quantization, compression, and structural graph manipulation to minimize memory footprint and maximize execution speed. It features a modular architecture that abstracts hardware-specific backends, allowing models to run efficiently across diverse

This project is a distributed computing platform designed to orchestrate containerized workloads across heterogeneous hardware clusters. It functions as a centralized control plane that manages resource allocation, scheduling, and execution environments, enabling organizations to share high-performance computing infrastructure securely among multiple users and projects. The platform distinguishes itself through advanced hardware virtualization and multi-tenant management capabilities. It supports the partitioning of physical graphics processing units into fractional slices, allowing multiple

vLLM is a high-throughput inference engine designed for the efficient serving and execution of large language models. It functions as a production-ready distributed model server, providing standard API protocols for online serving while also supporting offline batch processing. The system is built to maximize token generation speed and memory efficiency, enabling both large-scale cloud deployments and local execution on personal hardware. The project distinguishes itself through advanced memory management and request scheduling techniques, most notably its use of non-contiguous key-value cach

OpenVINO is an AI inference engine and model serving platform designed to execute optimized deep learning models across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs through a unified API. It includes a model optimization toolkit for converting, quantizing, and compressing models from various frameworks, alongside a specialized generative AI runtime for large language models. The project distinguishes itself through a plugin-based hardware acceleration layer that maps neural network operations to vendor-specific drivers. It features advanced execution mechanisms such as continuous batching, speculative decoding, and

Ray is a distributed computing framework designed to scale Python and Java applications across clusters by abstracting task scheduling and resource management. It functions as a resource-aware execution engine that manages task dependencies, placement, and fault tolerance across networked compute nodes. At its core, the system provides a stateful actor model, allowing developers to define classes that run in dedicated processes to maintain and mutate internal state across remote method calls. The framework distinguishes itself through a robust cross-language interoperability layer, enabling f

Swift for TensorFlow is a custom toolchain that extends the Swift language with first-class automatic differentiation and differentiable types, enabling gradient-based computation directly within the compiler. It integrates the Swift compiler with TensorFlow runtime and XLA backends, allowing tensor operations to be compiled and executed on hardware-accelerated hardware for high-performance machine learning. The project distinguishes itself through compiler-integrated automatic differentiation that computes gradients of user-defined functions and types during compilation, eliminating the need

Tinygrad is a deep learning framework and tensor computation engine designed for building and training neural networks. It functions as a hardware abstraction layer that manages device memory, command queues, and kernel dispatching across heterogeneous computing architectures. By utilizing a lazy-evaluation approach, the framework constructs computational graphs that defer execution until data is explicitly required, allowing it to process only the necessary operations for a given result. The project distinguishes itself through a just-in-time compilation layer that transforms abstract comput

TVM is a machine learning compiler framework designed to convert deep learning models from various frameworks into optimized machine code. It functions as a cross-platform deployment engine that transforms high-level model definitions into efficient, hardware-specific binaries for diverse computing architectures. The system utilizes a multi-level compilation pipeline that decouples algorithm logic from hardware implementation through tensor-operator abstractions. It employs a graph-level intermediate representation to perform cross-operator optimizations and memory planning before lowering co