Projects sharing features with Gpt Fast

fastllm is a set of specialized software components for model weight conversion, Mixture-of-Experts runtimes, and tensor parallelism. It provides an OpenAI compatible API server to expose large language model capabilities through a standardized request format. The project features a tensor parallelism framework that splits computational workloads across multiple GPUs to accelerate execution. It includes a dedicated runtime optimized for Mixture-of-Experts architectures and a quantization tool to convert model weights into lower precision formats to reduce memory usage and increase throughput.

gpt-oss is an open-weight large language model and reasoning engine designed for complex reasoning and agentic workflows. It functions as an AI agent framework and model serving API, allowing for local deployment and the hosting of standardized interfaces to expose model completions and internal reasoning processes. The project distinguishes itself as a quantized inference engine, utilizing tensor parallelism and weight quantization to run high-parameter models on limited hardware. It features a reasoning model that employs chain-of-thought processing to solve multi-step logical tasks. The s

Intel XPU LLM Acceleration Library is a toolkit designed to accelerate large language model inference and finetuning on Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. It provides a distributed inference engine for scaling models across multiple accelerators, a multimodal model runtime for vision and speech tasks, and a low-bit model quantization tool for converting weights into INT4, FP8, and GGUF formats. The project features a parameter-efficient finetuning framework that enables model adaptation using QLoRA and DPO on Intel hardware. It distinguishes itself by providing specialized optimizations for Intel XP

FastDeploy is a high-performance deployment framework for large language models, vision models, and multimodal models. It provides the infrastructure to launch model services that process combined image, video, and text inputs, exposing these capabilities through a standardized, OpenAI-compatible API for chat and text completions. The project distinguishes itself through advanced inference pipeline engineering and GPU optimization. It employs speculative decoding, tensor parallelism, and a disaggregated execution model that separates prefill and decode phases across different hardware resourc

FasterTransformer is a high-performance inference optimization library and distributed runtime designed to accelerate the execution of transformer models. It provides a toolkit for reducing model precision and parallelizing execution across multiple GPUs to increase throughput and reduce latency for large language models. The framework utilizes a C++ backend with custom CUDA kernels to replace generic operations with optimized GPU instructions. It implements tensor and pipeline parallelism to shard model weights and distribute compute operations across multiple devices. The system includes c

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

OpenNMT-py is a PyTorch neural machine translation framework used for training and deploying neural machine translation and large language models. It functions as a distributed model training system, an inference engine, and a toolkit for fine-tuning large language models. The framework distinguishes itself with a dedicated toolkit for adapting large language models through low-rank adaptation, quantization, and instruction tuning. It also includes a neural machine translation server that allows trained models to be hosted and exposed via REST API endpoints. The project covers a broad range

Lorax is a GPU-accelerated inference server and multi-adapter engine designed for serving large language models. It functions as a high-throughput system capable of deploying models via Kubernetes and managing the dynamic swapping of Low-Rank Adaptation adapters per request. The server distinguishes itself through multi-adapter dynamic batching, which allows requests using different adapter weights to be processed in a single GPU forward pass. It employs just-in-time adapter loading and weighted adapter merging to maximize throughput and enable multi-tasking without sacrificing performance.

PaddleNLP is a development library and toolkit for training, fine-tuning, and deploying large and small language models using the PaddlePaddle framework. It provides a comprehensive suite for the entire natural language processing lifecycle, from model development to high-performance inference. The project features a standardized model zoo for loading and managing pre-trained models and tokenizers through a unified interface. It distinguishes itself with a specialized model compression framework that reduces memory footprints via weight precision conversion and lossless size optimization, alo

Sglang is a high-performance inference engine and serving system designed for large language and multimodal models. It provides a programmable interface for orchestrating complex generation workflows, enabling developers to coordinate multi-turn dialogues, tool invocations, and reasoning chains through a domain-specific language. The platform is built to support production-scale deployments, offering an OpenAI-compatible API that allows for integration with existing application ecosystems. The system distinguishes itself through a disaggregated architecture that separates compute-intensive pr

FastVideo is a comprehensive system for accelerated video generation, serving as a video generation inference engine, a video diffusion training framework, and a modular pipeline orchestrator. It provides a distributed transformer optimizer and a distillation toolkit designed to reduce denoising steps and model complexity to increase frame rates. The project distinguishes itself through specialized acceleration techniques, including joint distillation and sparse attention training. It implements low-step video generation and weight quantization to FP8 or FP4 precision to increase throughput a

alpaca.cpp is a high-performance local inference engine implemented in C++ for executing instruction-tuned large language models. It serves as a quantized model runtime designed to load and run model tensors on local hardware with minimal dependencies, removing the requirement for a full Python environment. The project focuses on on-device text generation and the deployment of private AI chatbots. It utilizes model weight quantization to reduce memory requirements and increase inference speed on consumer-grade devices. The system covers hardware-optimized model execution through thread-pool

faster-whisper is an automatic speech recognition framework and an optimized implementation of the Whisper speech-to-text engine. It functions as a CTranslate2 inference engine designed to convert spoken audio into written text. The project serves as a model quantization tool that transforms large audio model weights into lower precision formats. This process reduces memory usage and increases execution speed on hardware by utilizing integer quantized weights. The framework covers a broad range of capabilities including batch audio transcription for parallel processing and voice activity det

Llama is a large language model runtime and inference engine designed to load and execute autoregressive transformer models. It enables the generation of natural language text completions from prompts using pretrained weights. The system features multi-GPU model parallelism, which distributes model weights and workloads across multiple graphics processors to support larger parameter counts. It also incorporates a content safety filter that uses classifiers to intercept and block unsafe inputs or outputs during the inference process. The project covers broad capabilities in distributed model

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

MOSS is a conversational AI platform, fine-tuning toolkit, and quantized model runtime. It provides a framework for deploying large language models capable of multi-turn dialogue, general-purpose response generation, and following complex instructions. The system functions as a tool-augmented framework that extends model knowledge through external plugins and tool-call loops. This allows the model to execute tasks via search engines and calculators to augment responses with external data. The project covers model training through supervised conversational fine-tuning and optimizes deployment

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

KoboldCPP is a local large language model inference engine and GGUF model runner designed to execute quantized models on personal hardware. It functions as a multimodal AI server and API gateway, providing OpenAI-compatible endpoints that allow third-party clients to interact with locally hosted models. The project distinguishes itself as an AI storytelling backend, featuring dedicated tools for long-form narrative management through persistent memory, world lore tracking, and character state management. It further extends its capabilities as a multimodal server capable of processing text, im

whisper.cpp is a C++ implementation of the Whisper speech-to-text model, serving as a lightweight machine learning inference engine and quantized runtime. It provides high-performance automatic speech recognition and real-time audio transcription without requiring a Python environment. The project utilizes model quantization to reduce memory usage and increase inference speed on local hardware. It incorporates hardware acceleration to optimize processing speed across different processors. The system covers audio processing capabilities including voice activity detection, speaker diarization,

ggml is a low-level C++ tensor library and machine learning inference engine designed for performing mathematical operations on multi-dimensional arrays across diverse hardware platforms. It provides a foundational toolset for executing machine learning models and calculating mathematical gradients through an automatic differentiation library. The project features a quantized tensor framework that converts floating-point weights into integer representations to reduce memory usage and increase inference speed. It utilizes a custom binary format for model serialization to ensure rapid loading a

This project provides a foundational framework and reference implementation for executing causal language modeling and multimodal reasoning on local systems. It includes a set of core components for managing model assets, a fine-tuning framework, and structural definitions required to instantiate transformer-based architectures. The system is distinguished by its ability to process combined text and image inputs through multimodal transformer models for visual reasoning and document analysis. It also supports the deployment of quantized models, reducing memory footprints through low-precision

llama.cpp is a high-performance C++ inference engine and runtime for executing large language models locally across various hardware architectures. It provides the core components for local model execution, including a dedicated model quantizer for compressing weights into the GGUF format and a system for generating text embeddings for semantic search. The project distinguishes itself through specialized memory and execution optimizations, such as block-wise weight quantization to reduce memory footprints and memory-mapped model loading. It supports structured text generation by using formal

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

ipex-llm is an acceleration library and inference engine designed to optimize the execution and finetuning of large language models on Intel GPUs and NPUs. It provides a HuggingFace compatible model backend and a dedicated quantization toolkit for converting model weights into low-bit precision formats. The project facilitates distributed inference by splitting large model workloads across multiple accelerators using pipeline and tensor parallelism. It enables the deployment of models on Intel Arc, Flex, and Max GPUs to increase throughput and reduce latency. The library covers a broad range

BigDL is a PyTorch acceleration framework and distributed inference engine designed for large language models. It provides a toolkit for running models on Intel hardware, integrating quantization tools and libraries for parameter-efficient fine-tuning. The project distinguishes itself through the use of pipeline parallelism to distribute model workloads across multiple hardware accelerators. It utilizes low-bit integer quantization and speculative decoding to reduce memory footprints and decrease text generation latency. The system covers broad capabilities in model optimization, including w

SmolLM is a project dedicated to the development of small language models. It focuses on training and fine-tuning compact models that maintain high performance while utilizing fewer parameters. The project emphasizes efficient AI inference and on-device text generation, aiming to enable the deployment of lightweight models on edge devices with limited memory and processing power. It utilizes synthetic data generation to produce artificial datasets that improve the reasoning and training of these AI systems. The system supports a variety of optimization and training capabilities, including we

llama-rs is a local large language model inference engine implemented in Rust. It enables the execution of model computations on local hardware to generate text responses from user prompts. The project utilizes Rust-based tensor operations and direct-memory model mapping to handle high-performance linear algebra and efficient weight loading. It incorporates weight quantization to reduce the memory footprint of models by converting high-precision weights into smaller formats. The system includes a command-line interface for interactive chat sessions and one-off prompts, along with file-backed