Projects sharing features with LoRA

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

Axolotl is a distributed training orchestrator and fine-tuning framework for large language models, multimodal systems, and quantized models. It provides a structured environment for specializing pre-trained models through full parameter updates or low-rank adaptation, as well as aligning model outputs with human expectations via preference tuning pipelines and reward modeling. The system distinguishes itself through a configuration-driven pipeline that manages preprocessing and training workflows via a single file for reproducibility. It implements high-throughput optimizations such as multi

This project is a comprehensive toolkit for adapting large language models to the Chinese language, providing a specialized framework for fine-tuning, inference, and local deployment. It serves as a coordinated suite for language-specific adaptation, including tools for expanding tokenizers and implementing retrieval-augmented generation. The project distinguishes itself through a complete pipeline for model adaptation, featuring multilingual tokenizer expansion and a fine-tuning framework that supports instruction-based supervised training and adapter merging. It also includes a dedicated de

LitGPT is a training and deployment framework for large language models, providing a suite of tools for pretraining, finetuning, quantizing, evaluating, and serving models within a production environment. It includes a dedicated training pipeline for adapting pretrained models to specific tasks, a quantization tool for reducing weight precision, and an inference server for hosting models via web interfaces. The framework supports high-performance model development through custom architecture implementation and the use of predefined recipes to standardize pretraining and finetuning. It enables

Dive into LLMs is a framework designed for fine-tuning large language models and constructing modular machine learning pipelines. It provides a structured environment for adjusting pre-trained models on custom datasets while optimizing computational efficiency and training time. The project distinguishes itself by offering an interactive web interface that allows for the deployment and publication of trained models directly to a browser. This enables users to test and interact with model results through a standardized web-based environment. The platform supports the creation of flexible work

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

This repository is a collection of frameworks and guides for Llama models, functioning as a fine-tuning framework, an inference pipeline, and an AI workflow orchestrator. It provides tools for adapting large language models to specific datasets and domains. The project includes a parameter-efficient fine-tuning toolkit that utilizes techniques like low-rank adaptation to reduce memory and compute requirements. It also serves as an implementation guide for retrieval-augmented generation, combining model inference with external data retrieval to improve response accuracy. The capability surfac

Chinese-Vicuna is a Chinese large language model and instruction-following AI based on the LLaMA architecture. It is specifically designed for natural language understanding and generation in the Chinese language, utilizing an instruction-tuned model to follow complex user prompts across conversations. The project provides a LoRA fine-tuning framework and quantization systems to enable model adaptation and inference on consumer hardware. It implements quantized inference to reduce memory usage on both CPUs and GPUs, supported by a low-level C++ implementation to minimize system resource requi

Qwen is a comprehensive framework for large language model development, serving, and deployment. It provides a complete ecosystem for transformer-based sequence modeling, offering base models alongside specialized tools for instruction-tuned alignment, fine-tuning, and long-context inference. The project is designed to support both research and production environments, enabling users to train, optimize, and host generative models locally or across distributed hardware. The framework distinguishes itself through its focus on high-performance serving and extensibility. It features a high-perfor

Petals is a decentralized framework and inference engine for running large language models across a peer-to-peer network. It enables the execution of models that exceed the memory of any single machine by splitting computations and model layers across a collaborative swarm of GPUs. The system functions as a collaborative compute network where participants share local GPU resources and host model weights. It supports distributed prompt-tuning to adapt massive models to specific tasks and allows for the establishment of private compute swarms to process sensitive data within restricted, trusted

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

Accelerate is a PyTorch distributed training library that abstracts the boilerplate required to run models across multiple GPUs, TPUs, and CPUs. It functions as a deep learning model scaler and distributed hardware orchestrator, allowing the same training script to run on different hardware backends without modifying the core logic. The project provides a distributed training command line interface for configuring compute environments and launching jobs across single or multi-node clusters. It includes a mixed precision training framework to implement FP16 and BF16 precision, reducing memory

This repository serves as an educational framework for building large language models from the ground up. It provides a structured curriculum that guides learners through the end-to-end lifecycle of model development, including data processing, architecture design, and optimization. By focusing on low-level implementation, the project enables users to master the fundamental mechanics of artificial intelligence without relying on high-level abstraction frameworks. The project distinguishes itself by constructing neural network components and gradient-based optimization logic from first princip

ColossalAI is a distributed deep learning framework designed for training and deploying massive artificial intelligence models across clusters of hardware accelerators. It functions as a parallel computing engine that partitions model workloads and data across multiple processors to maximize memory efficiency and throughput. The platform distinguishes itself through a comprehensive suite of parallelization strategies, including multi-dimensional tensor parallelism and pipeline-based model parallelism, which segment neural network layers and stages across devices. To support large-scale genera

Unsloth is a high-performance training and inference platform designed to optimize the lifecycle of large language and multimodal models. It provides a comprehensive engine for fine-tuning, executing, and managing models locally, with a focus on reducing memory consumption and increasing compute speed on consumer-grade hardware. The platform distinguishes itself through hand-optimized kernels and automated computational graph techniques that maximize hardware throughput. It supports advanced training methodologies, including reinforcement learning for reasoning and efficient adapter-based fin

This project is a quantized fine-tuning framework for large language models. It implements a low-rank adaptation library and a four-bit quantizer to reduce the GPU memory requirements needed to train large models. The framework utilizes four-bit quantization and low-rank adapters to enable model training on consumer-grade hardware. It further reduces the memory footprint through double quantization and a paged optimizer that offloads states to system RAM. The system supports distributed training across multiple GPUs to handle larger parameter scales and includes utilities for custom dataset

DeepSpeed is a distributed deep learning optimization library and framework designed for the training and inference of massive AI models. It serves as a model parallelism orchestrator and a toolkit for scaling large language models across multiple GPUs and compute nodes. The project distinguishes itself through 3D parallelism orchestration, which combines data, pipeline, and tensor parallelism. It utilizes ZeRO-based memory partitioning to eliminate redundant storage and employs CPU-offload memory management to move weights and optimizer states to system RAM. Additionally, it provides special

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

LLaMA-Adapter is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning framework designed to adapt large language models using a minimal set of trainable parameters. It functions as an instruction tuning tool and a multimodal adapter, allowing pre-trained models to follow human instructions and process non-textual data. The project specializes in the integration of image, video, audio, and sensor data into language models for cross-modal understanding. It enables the customization of LLaMA models through the use of lightweight adapters, which allows for the extraction and storage of learned weights independently

LlamaFactory is a unified framework for fine-tuning and adapting large language models. It provides a comprehensive platform that standardizes training workflows across diverse machine learning architectures, allowing users to execute both full-tuning and parameter-efficient methods through a single interface. The project distinguishes itself by offering a low-code visual dashboard that enables users to configure experiments and monitor performance metrics in real time without writing extensive custom scripts. It also features a configuration-driven orchestration system that decouples experim

This project is a fine-tuning framework and training pipeline designed to optimize and adapt large language and vision models. It provides a specialized toolkit for parameter-efficient tuning and supervised learning, serving as both a trainer for multimodal models and a deployment tool for serving fine-tuned models via high-performance inference engines. The framework focuses on reducing memory and compute requirements by updating a small subset of model parameters. It supports a wide range of adaptation strategies, including vision-language model training to align text, image, video, and aud

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

LMFlow is a comprehensive suite for large language model fine-tuning, context extension, multimodal processing, and inference execution. It provides a toolkit for updating model parameters through full tuning or memory-efficient adapter algorithms, alongside an inference engine for executing tuned models via command-line or web-based interfaces. The framework includes a dedicated alignment suite for supervised tuning and reward model training to refine model behavior. It features a context window extender to increase maximum input lengths and a multimodal framework for building chatbots that

This project provides a Chinese large language model based on the LLaMA architecture. It is an instruction-tuned model optimized for natural language processing and multi-turn conversations in Chinese. The system includes a framework for parameter-efficient fine-tuning using low-rank adaptation and quantization to reduce memory requirements. It also implements retrieval augmented generation for local document question answering and supports long-context processing for sequences up to 64K tokens. The project covers a broad set of capabilities including supervised instruction tuning, reinforce

Firefly is a training framework and inference engine for large language models. It functions as a toolkit for pre-training and fine-tuning various open-weight architectures, providing a system for model alignment and parameter-efficient fine-tuning. The project includes utilities for merging adapter weights back into base models to create standalone files. It also provides a model alignment toolkit to format training data according to specific prompt templates, ensuring conversational consistency across different models. The framework supports distributed model training and preference-based

WeClone is an end-to-end framework designed for the creation, training, and deployment of personalized conversational AI digital twins. By fine-tuning large language models on individual chat history, the platform enables the replication of unique communication styles, speech patterns, and conversational habits. The system manages the entire lifecycle of these digital avatars, from initial data preparation to final integration into messaging platforms for real-time interaction. The platform distinguishes itself through a comprehensive suite of data processing utilities that prepare raw messag

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