6 alternatives to transformers

huggingface/transformers — 🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training. (168,166 stars, Apache-2.0, integration, ai, voice).

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The alternatives in detail

• bentoml/bentoml
  The easiest way to serve AI apps and models - Build Model Inference APIs, Job queues, LLM apps, Multi-model pipelines, and more!
  score 7.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 8,917 stars · 230 components · search them
• optimalscale/lmflow
  An Extensible Toolkit for Finetuning and Inference of Large Foundation Models. Large Models for All.
  score 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 8,482 stars · 138 components · search them
• vllm-project/vllm
  A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
  score 6.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 94,666 stars · 3,001 components · search them · alternatives
• adaswarm/adaswarm
  SwarmLoss: a PyTorch loss that trains through non-convex and non-differentiable objectives by fusing particle-swarm optimisation with gradient-based optimisers like Adam.
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 18 stars · 12 components · search them
• tensorflow/tensorflow
  An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
  score 6.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 201,202 stars · 3,000 components · search them · alternatives
• open-compass/vlmevalkit
  Open-source evaluation toolkit of large multi-modality models (LMMs), support 220+ LMMs, 80+ benchmarks
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 4,454 stars · 689 components · search them

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