30 open-source projects similar to openvla/openvla, ranked by shared indexed features. Tags may describe platforms or build tools rather than the same primary purpose. Check each project’s use case, license, and deployment requirements before treating it as a replacement.
RLinf is a distributed reinforcement learning orchestrator and embodied AI training framework. It provides the infrastructure to train vision-language-action models and robotic policies using a combination of reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning. The system is designed for scaling workloads across GPU clusters, managing the placement of actors, rollout workers, and environment components. It features a specialized robotics data collection pipeline for gathering teleoperated demonstrations and simulation trajectories into standardized replay buffers, alongside a hardware interface
Diffusion Policy is a robot learning framework that uses diffusion models to map visual observations to precise action trajectories. It functions as an imitation learning toolkit and visuomotor policy learner, providing a system to train neural networks that replicate human behavior by generating robotic movements based on image and sensor data. The framework employs a conditional denoising process to sample sequences of robotic movements, allowing it to handle multimodal action distributions where multiple valid trajectories may exist for a single state. It utilizes score-based action modeli
Metaseq is a transformer sequence modeling toolkit designed for training, fine-tuning, and deploying sequence-to-sequence models using open pre-trained weights. It provides a comprehensive framework for large language model training, including dedicated tools for sequence dataset processing and a standalone inference server for generating text via API requests. The project features specialized utilities for model quantization to reduce parameter precision to eight bits, which lowers memory usage and increases inference speed. It also includes a checkpoint conversion pipeline to transform mode
gpt-neox is a distributed training system and framework for building large-scale autoregressive language models. It implements the transformer architecture and provides a toolkit for training models with billions of parameters by distributing weights across compute clusters. The framework distinguishes itself through extensive support for distributed model parallelism, including pipeline and sequence parallelism, to overcome single-device memory limits. It further supports sparse model architectures using a mixture of experts system with Sinkhorn-based routing. The project covers a broad ran
AgiBot-World is a suite of software pipelines and tools designed for robotic policy training, dataset standardization, embodiment transfer, and performance benchmarking. It provides infrastructure for developing bimanual manipulation policies using foundation models and human-reference trajectory data. The project features a robot embodiment transfer suite that adapts pre-trained models to different robot bodies without requiring new multi-embodiment training data. It also includes a specialized evaluation framework for validating vision-language-action models through open-loop testing and ph
This project is a comprehensive research platform designed for the end-to-end lifecycle of robotic learning. It provides a modular framework for training neural network policies—specifically through imitation and reinforcement learning—and deploying them onto physical robotic hardware. By offering a unified interface for hardware abstraction, the platform decouples high-level control logic from the specific sensors and actuators of diverse robotic systems. The framework distinguishes itself through a standardized approach to data and policy management. It utilizes a consistent schema for reco
Baichuan2 is a collection of pre-trained large language models, including base and chat variants, designed for natural language generation and multi-turn conversational AI. It provides an inference engine and a fine-tuning framework to adapt these models to custom datasets and specialized domains. The project features a quantization toolkit and an inference engine that enable model execution across diverse hardware, including graphics processors, central processors, and specialized accelerators. These tools support low-bit weight quantization to reduce memory usage and increase inference spee
MiniCPM is a collection of small language models designed for local, on-device deployment in resource-constrained environments. The project focuses on running dense Transformer models on consumer hardware, including GPUs, CPUs, and Apple Silicon, without requiring custom code forks. The project distinguishes itself through heavy optimization for edge hardware, utilizing quantized weight compression in GGUF and MLX formats to reduce memory overhead. It implements advanced inference techniques such as speculative sampling and radix-tree prefix caching to accelerate generation speed and throughp
LLaMA-Factory is a comprehensive suite for dataset preparation, model fine-tuning, memory optimization, and standardized API deployment. It provides a unified platform for the supervised and reward-based fine-tuning of large language models and vision-language models. The framework includes a specialized toolkit for training vision-language models and a model serving interface that deploys trained models through high-performance APIs. It utilizes precision tuning and quantization techniques to reduce the hardware requirements and memory footprint of large models. The system covers data pipel
OpenPi is a vision-language-action robot control framework designed to generate physical control actions for robotic systems. It functions as a distributed robot model trainer, a model format converter, and a robot action streaming server. The framework provides tools for transforming model checkpoints between different framework formats to ensure interoperability across various development environments. It also includes a server that uses websocket connections to stream model-generated control actions from remote inference servers to physical robot hardware in real-time. The system supports
This project is a collection of implementation guides, recipes, and developer resources for building applications with Llama models. It serves as a comprehensive kit for developing autonomous agents, establishing retrieval-augmented generation systems, and executing model fine-tuning. The resource provides specific patterns for multimodal workflows that process text, images, and audio. It includes specialized guidance on adapting pre-trained model weights for targeted tasks and implementing tool-calling orchestration to connect models with external APIs and functions. The codebase covers a b
This project is a JAX-based transformer framework and large language model trainer designed for building and training distributed models on TPU hardware accelerators. It provides a system for pretraining and fine-tuning autoregressive models by splitting weights and computations across a mesh of devices to reduce memory overhead and increase processing speed. The framework includes a TPU compute orchestrator for provisioning resources and automating dependency installation across remote distributed nodes. It also features a model weight converter capable of transforming and resharding checkpo
Flash Linear Attention is a training framework and inference engine for sequence models that use linear attention and state space mechanisms, designed to process long contexts with reduced memory and compute overhead. It provides hardware-optimized token mixing layers and fused CUDA kernels that minimize memory bandwidth and launch overhead across different GPU architectures, and includes a causal inference engine that generates text token-by-token using cached hidden states for efficient autoregressive decoding. The project supports building hybrid sequence models that interleave standard at
giga-brain-0 is a robot action model framework designed to train and deploy neural networks that map multi-modal sensor data to physical robot control signals. It functions as a robot manipulation controller that processes high-dimensional observations to execute dexterous, long-horizon physical tasks. The project provides a multi-modal robot inference server using a client-server architecture to stream real-time vision and language observations for instant action prediction. It includes an embodiment fine-tuning pipeline to adapt pre-trained base models to specific robot hardware configurati
Axolotl is a configuration-driven framework designed for the fine-tuning, evaluation, and quantization of large language models. It functions as a comprehensive orchestrator for distributed training, enabling users to manage complex workflows across multi-node and multi-GPU environments. By utilizing structured configuration files, the platform streamlines the setup of training parameters, dataset paths, and hardware distribution strategies. The project distinguishes itself through its support for diverse training methodologies, including full-parameter tuning, parameter-efficient adaptation,
Tinker Cookbook is an open-source framework for fine-tuning large language models, supporting supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and parameter-efficient techniques like LoRA adapters. It provides a complete pipeline for aligning models with human preferences through multi-stage RLHF workflows, from supervised fine-tuning through preference optimization to reinforcement learning. The framework distinguishes itself through recipe-based training orchestration, where fine-tuning workflows are defined as composable recipe files that chain data loading, model configuration, and training l
This project is a comprehensive framework for the training, fine-tuning, and deployment of large language models. It functions as a distributed deep learning platform that enables users to scale model workflows across multiple hardware nodes while providing tools for model evaluation and performance benchmarking. The platform distinguishes itself by offering specialized utilities for model compression and weight transformation, allowing users to reduce memory footprints and latency through quantization and pruning. It supports the adaptation of large models for consumer-grade hardware, facili
ESPnet is a comprehensive speech processing toolkit and PyTorch-based trainer designed for building end-to-end speech recognition, synthesis, and translation models. It provides a structured framework for developing automatic speech recognition systems using transducer and encoder-decoder architectures, alongside engines for text-to-speech synthesis and speech translation pipelines. The project distinguishes itself through a recipe-based workflow execution system that ensures experimental reproducibility by running standardized sequences of scripts for data preparation and model training. It
zero_nlp is a distributed framework for training and fine-tuning large language models and multimodal architectures. It provides a specialized toolkit for distributed model parallelism, allowing neural network layers and weights to be partitioned across multiple GPU devices to train models that exceed the memory capacity of a single processor. The project distinguishes itself through a combination of high-throughput data pipelines and parameter-efficient tuning. It utilizes multi-threading and memory mapping to preprocess and stream datasets exceeding 100GB and implements memory-saving adapta
Torchtune is a PyTorch-native library for fine-tuning, aligning, and quantizing large language models. It provides a config-driven system for instantiating components, orchestrating distributed training, and managing parameter-efficient fine-tuning with quantization support, all through YAML-based configurations and command-line overrides. The library distinguishes itself through its comprehensive post-training workflow orchestration, combining supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization (DPO, PPO, GRPO), knowledge distillation, and quantization-aware training in a single configurable pip
This project provides a comprehensive technical guide and framework for engineering large-scale machine learning systems. It covers the full lifecycle of model development, focusing on the infrastructure and computational principles required to build, train, and serve generative AI models across distributed GPU clusters. The repository distinguishes itself by offering deep-dive tutorials and implementation strategies for complex system challenges. It emphasizes high-performance architectural primitives, such as collective communication orchestration, distributed tensor sharding, and static gr
FastChat is a training and serving platform for large language models that provides an integrated toolkit for fine-tuning, hosting, and benchmarking chatbots. It functions as an inference server capable of hosting multiple models and exposing them via a standardized API for chat applications. The platform distinguishes itself through a distributed model controller that manages worker nodes and routes requests across a hardware-agnostic inference layer supporting various accelerators. It includes a dedicated evaluation framework for assessing model quality using automated judges, multi-turn di
Open-Sora-Plan is a text-to-video framework and distributed video training system. It utilizes a diffusion transformer architecture and large language model components to transform written descriptions or image prompts into high-quality video sequences. The system features a distributed infrastructure designed for large-scale video training and inference. It employs sequence parallelism to split high-resolution or long-duration video samples across multiple GPUs and uses a sparse attention mechanism to increase processing speed. The project includes capabilities for both text-to-video and im
FlagAI is a distributed deep learning framework and platform designed for the end-to-end lifecycle of large-scale foundation models. It provides a toolkit for training, fine-tuning, and deploying large language models and multi-modal systems across multi-node computing clusters. The project features hardware-agnostic compute abstractions to ensure consistent execution across different accelerators. It includes a dedicated library for parameter-efficient fine-tuning, allowing large neural networks to be adapted to specific tasks with minimal parameter updates and reduced computational overhead
This project is a comprehensive technical reference and educational resource focused on the lifecycle of large language models. It provides structured learning materials that cover the foundational mechanics of transformer architectures, the mathematical principles of attention mechanisms, and the engineering practices required for modern generative artificial intelligence. The repository serves as a guide for both technical skill development and professional preparation, offering a curriculum that spans from model training and inference optimization to advanced alignment techniques. It detai
This project is a comprehensive machine learning interview guide and technical study resource designed for individuals preparing for machine learning and AI engineering roles. It provides a collection of materials and practice problems covering core algorithms, theoretical fundamentals, and the implementation of neural network architectures. The resource serves as a technical reference for generative AI development, focusing on the design and optimization of large language models and diffusion systems. It includes frameworks for system design, covering the architecture of production machine l
This project is an alignment framework and suite of pipelines for training language models using supervised fine-tuning and preference optimization. It provides tools for executing large-scale distributed training across multiple GPUs and compute nodes, alongside a system for measuring model helpfulness and dialogue quality through single-turn and multi-turn benchmarks. The framework includes specialized tools for direct preference optimization to refine model behavior using paired data without a separate reward model. It also supports constitutional AI alignment and the training of reward mo
ChatGLM2-6B is an open-weight large language model designed for natural language conversations and text generation in both English and Chinese. It functions as a bilingual chat model capable of processing and maintaining coherence across text sequences up to 32K tokens. The model is optimized for local deployment through precision quantization, which reduces memory requirements to allow execution on consumer-grade hardware. It supports distributing model weights across multiple graphics cards to handle parameters that exceed the memory of a single device. The project covers capabilities for