Open-source alternatives to Ghostnet

YOLOv10 is a PyTorch computer vision library and real-time vision framework designed for locating and identifying multiple objects in images and video streams. It functions as an end-to-end object detector that optimizes for high-speed deployment and detection precision. The project is distinguished by an NMS-free detection architecture that predicts a single bounding box per object, eliminating the need for non-maximum suppression post-processing to reduce inference latency. It further optimizes for edge hardware through scalable weights and a quantization-friendly structure that facilitates

CV-Backbones is a computer vision backbone library and model zoo providing a collection of pre-defined neural network architectures for extracting visual features and processing image data. It serves as a PyTorch vision framework of reusable deep learning components designed for image analysis and visual representation learning. The library focuses on efficient neural network architectures to reduce computational overhead while maintaining feature extraction performance. This is achieved through the implementation of lightweight model designs such as GhostNet and MLP. The project covers a br

jetson-inference is a set of libraries and tools for executing optimized deep learning models on embedded GPU hardware. Its primary purpose is to enable real-time computer vision and AI inference at the edge with low latency and high throughput. The project distinguishes itself through high-performance streaming analytics and the ability to execute concurrent AI pipelines on auto-grade silicon. It provides specialized support for multi-sensor stream processing, utilizing zero-copy data transport to load camera frames directly into GPU memory. The codebase covers a broad surface of capabiliti

This is a pytorch implementation for the Visformer models. This project is based on the training code in DeiT and the tools in timm.

DeiT is a PyTorch vision transformer framework designed for image classification. It implements a transformer-based architecture that processes images as sequences of flattened patches using self-attention layers and position-aware sequence modeling instead of convolutional filters. The project focuses on data-efficient training through a knowledge distillation framework. This system allows a student model to mimic the soft labels of a high-performance teacher model to improve accuracy and generalization, particularly when training on smaller datasets. The library covers the full development

This is a collection of our NAS and Vision Transformer work.

Official implementation of CrossViT. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14899

This is a PyTorch implementation of EfficientNet convolutional neural networks. It serves as a computer vision model library providing architectures for image classification and high-level feature extraction, including pre-trained weights for immediate image categorization. The library supports transfer learning by allowing the modification of model architectures and output layers to accommodate a custom number of classes for new datasets. It also includes a model exporter to convert trained PyTorch weights into the ONNX format for production inference. The system covers broader computer vis

This project is a comprehensive computer vision library for the PyTorch ecosystem, providing a standardized collection of neural network architectures, datasets, and high-performance transformation utilities. It serves as a foundational framework for building, training, and deploying deep learning models, offering a centralized model registry that allows developers to instantiate architectures with pre-trained weights for tasks such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. The library distinguishes itself through its modular approach to data and compute management

MiniCPM-V is a multimodal large language model and vision-language system designed for complex visual and linguistic understanding. It functions as an on-device AI model, providing the capacity to process text, images, and video as a compact neural network. The project is specifically developed as an edge AI framework, utilizing quantization and weight sharding to run on memory-constrained mobile chipsets. This allows for the deployment of multimodal intelligence directly on mobile operating systems for local inference. Its capabilities cover multimodal content analysis of high-resolution im

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

lite.ai.toolkit is a C++ computer vision toolkit designed for edge AI deployment. It enables the execution of pre-trained models for object detection, image classification, and segmentation on resource-constrained devices. The project features a multi-backend inference engine that supports the ONNX model runtime, allowing AI models to run across different hardware targets. It includes a GPU-accelerated pipeline specifically for NVIDIA hardware to reduce latency and increase processing speed. The toolkit covers a broad range of facial analysis capabilities, including emotion detection, gender

LiteRT-LM is a high-performance inference framework designed to execute large language models locally on mobile, desktop, and IoT hardware. It serves as an on-device model runtime that utilizes CPU, GPU, and NPU acceleration to provide low-latency processing. The framework is distinguished by its ability to process text, vision, and audio inputs through a single multi-modal inference engine. It features a local HTTP server that emulates OpenAI-compatible API endpoints and a WebGPU-based runtime for executing models directly within a web browser. To ensure output reliability, it includes a con

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

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

Ultralytics is a comprehensive computer vision framework designed for training, validating, and deploying deep learning models across a wide range of visual recognition tasks. It provides a unified interface for core operations including object detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, and image classification. By utilizing a modular architecture, the platform allows users to swap model components to balance inference speed and accuracy requirements for diverse applications. The framework distinguishes itself through its support for real-time processing and flexible deployment. It in

llmware is a Python framework for AI agent orchestration and model management, designed to coordinate multi-model workflows and autonomous agents. It provides a unified model catalog and standardized interface to execute specialized language models for complex research, analysis, and structured data generation. The project distinguishes itself through its heavy emphasis on local execution and quantized inference, allowing models to run on private infrastructure using CPU, GPU, and NPU acceleration via runtimes like ONNX and OpenVino. It features a specialized ability to translate natural lang

Code release for ConvNeXt model

Paddle-Lite is a deep learning inference engine and edge computing runtime designed to execute trained models on mobile and edge devices. It provides a hardware-accelerated inference framework and a decoupled runtime with a minimal binary footprint to operate in resource-constrained environments without third-party dependencies. The project includes a model quantization tool for reducing precision and size via static and dynamic quantization, as well as a computation graph optimizer. These tools reduce latency and memory usage by fusing operators and pruning the model intermediate representat

This project is an edge computing development toolkit and serverless command line interface used to develop, test, and deploy serverless functions to a global edge network. It serves as an edge runtime bundler and resource orchestrator, managing the entire lifecycle of edge projects from local development to worldwide distribution. The toolkit distinguishes itself through distributed workflow management, coordinating stateful instances and the durable execution of long-running processes across the edge. It also provides specialized integrations for edge AI, including the management of vector

FedML is a distributed machine learning training library, federated learning framework, and GPU workload orchestrator. It provides the core system components necessary to execute large-scale model training and fine-tuning across multi-cloud, on-premise, and decentralized GPU clusters, while offering a dedicated engine for scalable model serving and an MLOps pipeline manager for end-to-end lifecycle management. The platform distinguishes itself by enabling privacy-preserving federated learning across decentralized edge devices and organizational silos, keeping raw data on local hardware. It al

ExecuTorch is a lightweight C++ runtime for deploying PyTorch models on mobile, embedded, and edge hardware. It provides an ahead-of-time compilation pipeline that exports, quantizes, and lowers model graphs into compact serialized programs, then executes them through a minimal runtime with hardware acceleration and on-device large language model inference capabilities. The project distinguishes itself through a hardware accelerator delegate system that partitions model subgraphs and offloads computation to specialized backends including NPUs, GPUs, and DSPs from Apple, Arm, Intel, MediaTek,

PlugNPlay-Modules is a collection of reusable PyTorch computer vision modules and deep learning architectural components. It provides a library of standardized building blocks for constructing neural networks, focusing on attention mechanisms, signal processing layers, and feature fusion modules. The project is distinguished by its extensive variety of attention primitives, covering spatial, channel, and temporal weighting, as well as specialized variants like deformable, frequency-enhanced, and linear-complexity attention. It also implements advanced signal processing tools within the neural

LightGlue is a deep learning framework designed for local feature matching and high-speed correspondence estimation between pairs of images. It functions as a computer vision matching model that identifies corresponding keypoints across different viewpoints. The system utilizes an adaptive neural network architecture that dynamically optimizes inference speed by pruning its own depth and width based on the input image pairs. This approach employs a transformer-style attention mechanism and cross-image attention to compute correlations between feature descriptors. The matching process include

This project provides a suite of lightweight face detection models designed for high-speed inference on edge computing devices. It centers on a compact neural network architecture that enables human face detection within environments characterized by limited compute resources and power constraints. The system features quantized face detectors available in multiple formats to ensure compatibility across diverse hardware architectures. It includes utilities for model export and quantization, allowing trained weights to be converted into standardized formats for hardware-agnostic deployment. Th

Neutts is a neural text-to-speech engine designed for real-time streaming output on edge devices such as phones and laptops. It supports voice cloning from short audio references, enabling zero-shot reproduction of a target speaker's voice, and can be fine-tuned or retrained from scratch for custom voices and styles. The system distinguishes itself through a decoder-only architecture that halves memory and accelerates generation on constrained hardware, combined with quantized model inference for reduced memory footprint. Its streaming decoder loop interleaves synthesis with playback, deliver