Projects sharing features with LitServe

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

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

exllamav2 is a high-performance inference library designed for running large language models locally on consumer-grade GPUs. It provides a GPU-accelerated runner and quantization tools to enable model execution without reliance on cloud-based computing services. The project features a quantization utility that compresses models into mixed bitrates between two and eight bits to reduce video RAM requirements. It distinguishes itself through a batched text generator that handles grouped requests and deduplicates cache data to increase throughput. The library covers a broad capability surface in

Genkit is an open-source framework for building AI-powered applications. It provides a unified interface for connecting to hundreds of generative AI models from multiple providers, enabling text, image, audio, and video generation through a single API. The framework structures multi-step AI interactions—including chat, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and agentic workflows—as composable, traceable flows with built-in streaming and state management. The framework distinguishes itself through a comprehensive developer toolkit that includes a command-line interface and a local developer

Text Generation Inference is a production-ready engine designed for the deployment and serving of large language models. It functions as a containerized runtime environment that manages model execution, scales across distributed hardware, and provides high-performance inference capabilities for demanding production environments. The project distinguishes itself through advanced optimization techniques, including continuous batching to maximize hardware utilization and tensor parallelism to shard large models across multiple accelerator cards. It supports efficient inference through custom com

BentoML is a machine learning model serving framework and GPU-accelerated inference server designed to package, deploy, and scale AI models as production-ready REST APIs. It functions as an AI model lifecycle manager and an inference graph orchestrator, enabling the chaining of multiple models and custom logic into complex pipelines for advanced task sequences. The framework distinguishes itself through a dynamic batching engine that optimizes GPU throughput and an artifact-based packaging system that bundles model weights and dependencies into immutable archives for consistent deployment. It

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

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

KServe is an open platform for deploying and serving generative and predictive AI models on Kubernetes. It defines inference services as custom resources with declarative YAML specifications, enabling a Kubernetes-native approach to model deployment and lifecycle management. The platform leverages Knative-based serverless scaling for automatic scale-to-zero and revision management, and supports a pluggable serving runtime architecture that maps model formats to containerized execution environments. KServe distinguishes itself through model-aware autoscaling that scales replicas based on token

Llama.cpp is an inference engine designed for the local execution of text-based and multimodal language models on consumer hardware. It provides a core environment for running models that process both text and image inputs, utilizing hardware-accelerated backends to optimize performance across diverse CPU and GPU architectures. The project distinguishes itself by offering a lightweight HTTP server that adheres to standard API specifications, enabling chat completion, embeddings, and reranking services. It includes a suite of tools for model quantization and conversion, which reduces memory us

Triton Inference Server is a high-performance server designed to deploy machine learning models from multiple frameworks across GPUs and CPUs. It functions as a hardware-accelerated inference engine and a gRPC inference gateway, providing a standardized communication layer for transmitting binary tensor data with low latency. The system acts as a multi-framework model orchestrator, allowing users to link multiple AI models into ensembles and scripts to create complex inference pipelines. It also serves as a model lifecycle manager, providing controls to load, unload, and monitor the performan

Ollama provides a framework for running and managing local machine learning models. It includes a command-line interface for model lifecycle management, such as creation, embedding generation, and configuration, alongside a stable API for programmatic interaction across multiple programming languages. The platform supports the import of models and adapters in various formats, including GGUF and Safetensors. Users can define custom model behaviors, prompt templates, and system messages through a configuration file format. It also offers tools for fine-tuning models with LoRA adapters and apply

LiteLLM is a unified gateway and proxy server designed to centralize access to over one hundred language model providers. It provides a standardized API interface that abstracts vendor-specific schemas, allowing developers to interact with diverse models through a single, consistent format. By acting as a central traffic management layer, it enables organizations to route, secure, and govern model interactions across multiple deployments. The platform distinguishes itself through its policy-driven architecture, which uses configuration-based routing to manage traffic distribution, load balanc

Eino is an AI agent development kit and LLM application framework designed for building autonomous agents and orchestrating complex language model workflows. It serves as a multi-agent orchestration engine and workflow orchestrator, providing a graph-based execution model to route data between models, tools, and retrievers. The framework distinguishes itself through a robust set of multi-agent coordination patterns, including supervisor-led management, sequential flows, and autonomous reasoning loops like ReAct. It features advanced agent execution controls such as active turn preemption, che

ClearML is a comprehensive MLOps platform designed to manage the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from initial experimentation to production deployment. It provides a suite of integrated tools including a pipeline orchestrator for automating workflows, an experiment tracking tool for logging hyperparameters and metrics, and a metadata-driven data versioning system for managing large-scale datasets and model artifacts. The platform is distinguished by its advanced compute management and serving capabilities. It features a GPU compute manager that supports fractional resource slicing and

This project is a high-performance BERT embedding service and inference server designed to map text sequences into fixed-length numerical vectors. It functions as a machine learning microservice and distributed model server that decouples request handling from heavy computation. The system utilizes a ZeroMQ messaging infrastructure to provide low-latency communication between distributed clients and the inference server. It incorporates server-side batch processing and GPU workload scaling to maximize hardware utilization and manage high request volumes. The platform supports semantic search

exllamav2 is a high-performance inference engine and framework for executing large language models locally on consumer-class GPUs. It provides a complete system for local model deployment, including a specialized inference engine and tools for model quantization. The project features a multi-GPU inference framework that distributes workloads across multiple graphics cards to run models that exceed the memory capacity of a single device. It includes a GPU model quantizer capable of converting models into mixed-precision formats between 2 and 8 bits to balance memory usage and accuracy. The en

gpt4free-ts is a TypeScript-based LLM API proxy and gateway that provides a unified interface for accessing large language models without paid subscriptions or official API keys. It functions as a containerized AI bridge that routes requests to various free third-party providers to retrieve chat completions. The project acts as an OpenAI API wrapper, translating requests and responses into the standard OpenAI chat completions format to ensure compatibility with existing AI tools. It utilizes a provider-based routing system to distribute request loads across available endpoints. The gateway s

Text Embeddings Inference is a high-performance inference server designed to host text embedding and sequence classification models as scalable API endpoints. It provides a vector embedding API to convert text into dense representations and a cross-encoder reranking server for scoring the relevance of document sequences against a query. The project features a GPU-accelerated inference engine that utilizes dynamic batching and specialized kernels to maximize throughput. It offers a high-performance binary interface via gRPC as an alternative to standard HTTP to reduce network latency and seria

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

LMCache is a distributed key-value cache manager and tiering system designed to accelerate large language model inference. It functions as a tiered storage layer that offloads tensors from GPU memory to CPU RAM, local disks, or remote object stores, enabling the reuse of cached prefixes across different inference sessions and serving engines. The system differentiates itself through a disaggregated prefill-decode model, which separates prompt processing from token generation by transferring caches between distributed compute nodes. It utilizes peer-to-peer orchestration to share and retrieve

Cog is a machine learning packaging tool and containerized model wrapper that bundles models and their dependencies into standardized Docker containers. It functions as an environment manager and inference server, ensuring consistent model execution across different hardware systems by resolving GPU drivers, system libraries, and Python dependencies. The project distinguishes itself by automatically generating RESTful HTTP servers and OpenAPI schemas based on defined model input and output types. It manages large model weights as external fixtures to optimize image size and utilizes a slot-ba

This project is an on-device AI SDK providing a framework for running large language models, vision models, and speech models locally. It serves as an orchestration layer for local LLM execution, ensuring data privacy and offline availability by utilizing hardware acceleration on the device. The SDK is distinguished by its comprehensive voice and multimodal capabilities, including a coordinated voice pipeline for activity detection, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech synthesis. It also provides a dedicated implementation kit for local retrieval-augmented generation and tools for processing co

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

mini-sglang is a collection of tools for large language model inference, serving as an OpenAI-compatible inference server, a memory-efficient prefill engine, and a tensor parallelism runtime. It also functions as a local batch processing engine for offline benchmarking and ablation studies. The project focuses on acceleration and memory management through a KV cache manager that reuses precomputed caches for shared request prefixes. It handles large model workloads by distributing tasks across multiple GPUs and manages peak memory consumption by splitting long input sequences into smaller chu

KServe is a Kubernetes-native platform for deploying and serving machine learning models as scalable inference services. It supports both generative AI models, including large language models, and traditional predictive models from frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, and ONNX. The platform manages the full lifecycle of model deployments, including revision tracking, canary rollouts, A/B testing, and automatic rollbacks, and provides serverless scale-to-zero capabilities for cost-efficient resource management. KServe distinguishes itself through a standardized infere

Infinity is a high-throughput, low-latency serving engine for text-embeddings, reranking models, clip, clap and colpali