Open Source LLM Inference Tools

whisper.cpp is a lightweight, C/C++ reimplementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model—designed for efficient, standalone transcription without external dependencies. The entire high-level implementation of the model is contained in whisper.h and whisper.cpp. The rest of the code is part of the ggml machine learning library. The command downloads the base.en model converted to custom ggml format and runs the inference on all .wav samples in the folder samples. whisper.cpp supports integer quantization of the Whisper ggml models. Quantized models require less memory and disk space and depending on the hardware can be processed more efficiently.

The challenge is to run Stable Diffusion 1.5, which includes a large transformer model with almost 1 billion parameters, on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2, which is a microcomputer with 512MB of RAM, without adding more swap space and without offloading intermediate results on disk. The recommended minimum RAM/VRAM for Stable Diffusion 1.5 is typically 8GB. Generally, major machine learning frameworks and libraries are focused on minimizing inference latency and/or maximizing throughput, all of which at the cost of RAM usage. So I decided to write a super small and hackable inference library specifically focused on minimizing memory consumption: OnnxStream. OnnxStream is based on the idea of decoupling the inference engine from the component responsible for providing the model weights, which is a class derived from WeightsProvider. A WeightsProvider specialization can implement any type of loading, caching, and prefetching of the model parameters.

Phoenix provides ML insights at lightning speed with zero-config observability for model drift, performance, and data quality. Phoenix is an Open Source ML Observability library designed for the Notebook. The toolset is designed to ingest model inference data for LLMs, CV, NLP and tabular datasets. It allows Data Scientists to quickly visualize their model data, monitor performance, track down issues & insights, and easily export to improve. Deep Learning Models (CV, LLM, and Generative) are an amazing technology that will power many of future ML use cases. A large set of these technologies are being deployed into businesses (the real world) in what we consider a production setting.

Genv is an open-source environment and cluster management system for GPUs. Genv lets you easily control, configure, monitor and enforce the GPU resources that you are using in a GPU machine or cluster. It is intended to ease up the process of GPU allocation for data scientists without code changes.