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Post-training and RL infrastructure for open models — fine-tuning, alignment, reward loops.

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HumanSignal avatarHumanSignal 1.6k · 12 days ago
Adala

HumanSignal's autonomous data-labeling agent framework: define a skill, give it ground truth, and the agent iterates — learn, apply, reflect — until it hits your accuracy threshold.

agentstraining
→ pairs well with kev, GraphGen
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thu-nics avatarthu-nics 726 · 6 days ago
C2C

Cache-to-Cache (ICLR'26): LLMs talk by projecting and fusing each other's KV-caches instead of generating text — higher accuracy than text relay at ~2x lower latency. Fuser weights on HF.

trainingagents
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OpenDCAI avatarOpenDCAI 8.2k · 2 days ago
DataFlow

Operator-based system for LLM data prep — 100+ operators composed into pipelines that generate, clean, evaluate and filter pretraining/SFT/RL data, with a WebUI and a pipeline-building agent.

training
→ pairs well with LlamaFactory, gigatoken
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THUDM avatarTHUDM 348 · 4 months ago
DeepDive

THUDM recipe for deep-search agents: synthesize hard multi-hop QA from knowledge-graph random walks, then multi-turn GRPO RL — DeepDive-32B hits 14.8% BrowseComp; data feeds GLM-4.5/4.6.

training
→ alternative to OpenResearcher, GraphGen
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marcelroed avatarmarcelroed 4.1k · 1 months ago
gigatoken

Tokenization at GB/s: ~1000x faster than HuggingFace tokenizers with drop-in compatibility modes for HF and tiktoken — Rust reading your files directly. pip install gigatoken.

traininglocal
→ pairs well with DataFlow, train-llm-from-scratch
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InternScience avatarInternScience 1.2k · 1 months ago
GraphGen

KG-guided synthetic SFT data: builds a knowledge graph from source text, finds the LLM's knowledge gaps via calibration error, and generates targeted long-tail QA pairs. ACL-published.

training
→ pairs well with LlamaFactory, trl
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h2oai avatarh2oai 5.2k · 9 days ago
h2o-llmstudio

H2O's no-code GUI and framework for fine-tuning LLMs — LoRA, 8-bit, DPO and experiment tracking behind a web UI, with CLI and Docker paths for the same configs.

training
→ alternative to trl, LlamaFactory
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bingreeky avatarbingreeky 554 · 1 months ago
JIT

JIT-Agent: a meta-agent that writes a task-specific harness on the fly — memory, planning, action and capability modules emitted as code — and revises it from traces at test time.

agentstraining
→ alternative to sia, agentic-context-engine
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jaredpalmer avatarjaredpalmer 9.2k · yesterday
kev

Open reproduction of TypeSafe's Jev: a LoRA + readout head on Qwen that answers many typed questions about one document in a single prefill pass, returning calibrated probabilities.

decision-modelstraininglocal
→ pairs well with Adala, jev-ultrafast
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NVIDIA-NeMo avatarNVIDIA-NeMo 1.2k · today
labs-molt

Molt: NVIDIA's agentic-first RL framework in ~9K lines — Ray for placement, vLLM for rollout, AutoModel + FSDP2 for training — fully async, multimodal, multi-turn, scaling to 1T-class MoE.

training
→ pairs well with gym-anything, verl
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hiyouga avatarhiyouga 75.5k · 5 days ago
LlamaFactory

The unified fine-tuning framework: 100+ LLMs and VLMs via LoRA/QLoRA/full-parameter, config-driven or through the LlamaBoard GUI. ACL 2024, 1000+ citations, 73k stars.

training
→ pairs well with GraphGen, Model-Optimizer
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ulab-uiuc avatarulab-uiuc 3k · 6 days ago
LLMRouter

UIUC's LLM routing library: 16+ trainable routers (KNN, MLP, matrix factorisation, Elo, graph, BERT) pick the best model per query, with xRouteBench and a train/serve CLI.

gatewaytraining
→ pairs well with litellm, OmniRoute
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OpenBMB avatarOpenBMB 387 · 5 days ago
Meshy

OpenBMB's RL training framework where every role — inference, training, rollout — is an independent service talking over one TransferQueue data plane. Built on SGLang and torchtitan.

training
→ alternative to verl, slime
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volotat avatarvolotat 1.2k · yesterday
mini-AGI

Continual-learning byte-level LM trained from scratch on one 8 GB GPU: weights page in from disk, capacity grows and prunes itself while it keeps reading a single data stream.

traininglocal
→ alternative to train-llm-from-scratch
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Goekdeniz-Guelmez avatarGoekdeniz-Guelmez 278 · 2 days ago
MLX-LoRA-Studio

Native Mac app for on-device LLM fine-tuning via mlx-lm-lora: pick a model, choose SFT/LoRA/DPO-family algorithms, watch loss fall live, push to Hugging Face. No cloud, no code.

traininglocal
→ pairs well with SiliconScope, coreai-models
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NVIDIA avatarNVIDIA 5.3k · today
Model-Optimizer

NVIDIA's model-compression library: quantization (PTQ/QAT, FP8/NVFP4), pruning, distillation, NAS and speculative decoding over HF/PyTorch/ONNX, exported to TensorRT-LLM, vLLM and SGLang.

traininglocal
→ pairs well with vLLM, trl
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cactus-compute avatarcactus-compute 14k · today
needle

A 45M-parameter tool-calling model shipped as one 14MB binary that runs a full session in ~28MB RAM — grammar-constrained JSON, calibrated confidence, tool retrieval, LoRA fine-tuning.

localagentstraining
→ pairs well with pocket-tts, xybrid
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TIGER-AI-Lab avatarTIGER-AI-Lab 1.3k · 4 months ago
OpenResearcher

TIGER-AI-Lab's fully open deep-research recipe: 96K long-horizon trajectories (adopted by NVIDIA Nemotron), a 30B-A3B model hitting 54.8% BrowseComp-Plus, training code and eval harness.

training
→ alternative to DeepDive, hyperresearch
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neural-maze avatarneural-maze 426 · yesterday
production-ocr-course

Runnable course: a production OCR pipeline on Kubernetes — Rust ingestion, Qwen 3.5 (4B) served by vLLM at 1.86 pages/s, Redis queues, KEDA autoscaling. Deploy it on AKS/GKE, not a notebook.

ocrtraining
→ alternative to ai-engineering-hub, vLLM
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Human-Agent-Society avatarHuman-Agent-Society 7.6k · today
reef

Continual-learning infra for self-improving agents: serve traffic (OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible), match feedback to runs, train weights via Slime/SGLang or evolve the harness, ship versioned updates.

trainingagents
→ pairs well with verl, vLLM
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google-research avatargoogle-research 1.5k · 22 days ago
rrsi

Google Research's Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement: evolves an agent harness (prompts, tools, memory, sub-agents) with constraints on the search so gains hold out of distribution.

agentstraining
→ alternative to sia, JIT
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PeterGriffinJin avatarPeterGriffinJin 5.5k · 11 months ago
Search-R1

RL framework for training reasoning-and-search interleaved LLMs — the open recipe behind DeepSeek-R1-style search agents: PPO/GRPO on veRL, any search backend, models and data on HF. Two papers.

training
→ alternative to OpenResearcher, hyperresearch
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hexo-ai avatarhexo-ai 2.2k · 1 months ago
sia

Self-improving loop from the SIA paper: Meta, Target and Feedback agents evolve a task agent's harness AND weights against a benchmark — #1 on MLE-Bench Hard, 14x kernel speedups.

agentstraining
→ alternative to reef, evo
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microsoft avatarmicrosoft 18.4k · 9 days ago
SkillOpt

Microsoft's text-space optimizer that trains a frozen agent's skill document like weights — rollouts, bounded edits, validation-gated updates — and ships a compact best_skill.md.

skillstraining
→ pairs well with waza, agentic-context-engine
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THUDM avatarTHUDM 8.7k · 3 days ago
slime

THUDM's RL post-training framework behind the GLM releases — Megatron training plus SGLang rollouts with native arg pass-through, and pluggable reward, verifier and agentic data-generation workflows.

training
→ alternative to verl, Meshy
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MakazhanAlpamys avatarMakazhanAlpamys 9.1k · today
Soup

Fine-tune and post-train LLMs from one YAML: QLoRA, DPO/ORPO/SimPO/KTO — layer streaming trains an 8B model in 3.3GB VRAM on a laptop GPU, bit-exact against a resident run.

training
→ alternative to LlamaFactory, h2o-llmstudio
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FareedKhan-dev avatarFareedKhan-dev 12.1k · 13 days ago
train-llm-from-scratch

The full LLM pipeline hand-written in plain PyTorch — tokens, transformer, pretraining, then SFT, reward model, PPO, DPO, GRPO. No trl, no peft: read every algorithm, train on one GPU.

training
→ pairs well with gigatoken, trl
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huggingface avatarhuggingface 19.5k · today
trl

Hugging Face's post-training library: SFT, DPO, GRPO, KTO and reward-model trainers on top of Transformers — from a Colab LoRA run to multi-GPU deployments.

training
→ pairs well with Model-Optimizer, vLLM
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verl-project avatarverl-project 23.9k · today
verl

ByteDance's RL post-training library (HybridFlow): PPO/GRPO dataflows in a few lines, FSDP/Megatron training with vLLM/SGLang rollouts, production-proven at frontier scale.

training
→ pairs well with opensre, reef