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Inference
Reviewed resources in Inference. 770 resources listed.
bitnet.c
github.comA minimal, zero-dependency LLM inference engine in pure C11 for GGUF models, with NEON and AVX2 SIMD CPU backends, mixture-of-experts routing, TurboQuant KV-cache compression, and a WebAssembly build.
vllm-windows (devnen patched fork)
docs.vllm.aiA patched, native-Windows build of vLLM adding three Windows-specific fixes, a Qwen3 reasoning parser and tool-calling backports, published as prebuilt wheels for both Ampere/Ada and Blackwell RTX GPUs.
turbo-quant
github.comExperimental Rust codecs for vector quantization, including PolarQuant, TurboQuant and QJL, producing derived compressed representations for semantic-search candidate generation and KV-cache compression experiments.
runNburn
github.comA memory-aware GGUF inference runtime in Rust that runs quantized language models across CPU, NVIDIA CUDA, Apple Metal and Android without expanding weights into oversized resident copies.
Quartermaster
quartermaster-labs.github.ioAn all-in-one local inference platform that computes each model's launch flags to fit a user's VRAM, hot-swaps between chat, image and voice models, and serves them behind one OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API.
Lynn Engine
github.comA now-concluded research project that profiled a self-built NVFP4 LLM inference engine against llama.cpp and vLLM, found the custom engine was not the leverage point, and folded its findings into upstream contributions.
From Tin to Tokens
github.comA free textbook on building an LLM inference stack from scratch in Rust, covering the driver interface, attention kernels, a paged KV cache, a scheduler, multi-GPU collectives and a quantisation pipeline.
bitgpu
github.comA dependency-free WebGPU runtime for running 1-bit, binary-weight large language models directly in the browser, with GPU-resident decoding, streaming output and cross-turn KV-cache reuse.
strix-halo-sglang
github.comAn SGLang Docker image, with several out-of-tree patches, for running LLM inference on AMD's consumer Strix Halo APU (Ryzen AI Max+ 395 / Radeon 8060S), a platform AMD's own official images do not target.
ROCm CLI
rocm.aiA command-line tool for setting up and running local AI models on AMD GPUs, shipped as a single prebuilt binary with a full-screen TUI dashboard for GPU telemetry, model serving and chat.
Hypha
docs.amun.aiA generative-AI-powered application framework for large-scale data management and AI model serving, connecting compute services across distributed locations through virtual workspaces and remote procedure calls.
Diffuse
diffuse-systems.github.ioA peer-to-peer network of ordinary machines that runs large language models across the network so a prompt is served without a central operator, encrypted so it never leaves the sender's device in clear text.
ShadowQuill
github.comA local, offline prompt-engineering studio that turns rough ideas into structured prompts using self-hosted Gemma models through Ollama, with no cloud API, account or network access required after setup.
p2ptokens
github.comA distributed, peer-to-peer network for LLM inference where every peer both serves and consumes completions, metered by a BitTorrent-style upload-to-download ratio instead of money, brokered by a coordinator that never sees the request content.
locca
locca.klair.coA terminal UI around llama.cpp for running, managing and benchmarking local GGUF models, with a setup wizard tuned for iGPU-class hardware and a launcher for the pi coding agent against the local server.
GGUF Memory Estimator
gabriel.devenyi.caA browser-based and command-line calculator that estimates VRAM and RAM requirements for a GGUF model hosted on Hugging Face, without downloading the model.
Perspective Studio
github.comA free, open-source macOS app for browsing, downloading and chatting with open-source AI models entirely on-device using MLX Swift, with no cloud calls, API keys or subscriptions.
swift-litert-lm
github.comA Swift package that runs Google's Gemma 4 model on iPhone through the LiteRT-LM runtime on the Metal GPU, with text, image and audio input, and a second mode that plugs the same runtime into Apple's Foundation Models API as a custom backend.
rlx-models
github.comA collection of 182 machine-learning model families spanning language, vision, speech and audio, ported as standalone Rust crates on top of the rlx multi-backend compiler and runtime, targeting CPU, Metal, MLX, CUDA and wgpu.
qMLX
qmlx.mrzk.ioA Qwen-specialized fork of MLX adding disk-backed KV-cache checkpointing for hybrid attention models, letting a 122-billion-parameter model stay responsive across long conversations on Apple Silicon.
CodeWorker
github.comAn offline, Windows-only local LLM coding assistant that bundles llama.cpp, Python and Git into one folder, indexing a project with a local RAG search and code graph to answer questions and propose file edits without cloud access.
Runpod serverless runner for ollama
github.comThis project packages Ollama as a serverless worker for the RunPod.io platform, downloading a named model automatically on startup and serving both native Ollama and OpenAI-compatible streaming requests.
gmlx
asher.github.iogmlx is a local inference platform for running K-quant and IQ-quant GGUF models on Apple Silicon, serving them over OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs, with terminal or browser chat, voice input, a local RAG stack and LoRA fine-tuning.
Ghostlink
rwilliamspbg-ops.github.ioGhostlink is a self-hosted, open-source distributed inference fabric that discovers other machines on a LAN and splits a language model's weights across their CPU, GPU and NPU resources, serving the result behind an OpenAI-compatible API with no manual configuration.