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Hey! I forked NInfer (a from-scratch C++20/CUDA inference engine for Qwen models) and added two things: tensor-parallel across two GPUs, and YaRN ×4 rope scaling. Together they let Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4 r

As in actual physical heat. How are people coping with the heat that running a decent inference rig pumps out? I've got dual 5060 Ti GPUs and a relatively modest CPU (Intel 14 Core Ultra 5 245KF Deskt

If you’re trying to run local LLMs on a normal laptop, an older desktop, integrated graphics, limited VRAM, or simply the hardware you already own, r/LowEndLocalAI is meant for you. The idea is simple

AirLLM dramatically reduces inference memory usage, letting 70B large language models run on a single 4GB GPU card — without quantization, distillation, or pruning. You can even run 405B Llama 3.1 on

Following up on my previous post about my budget server setup (Intel N100 + RTX 5060 Ti 16GB), a few of you asked for a deeper dive into my actual inference config and real-world agentic performance.

Everything started with the sudden death of my old ASRock J1900. While looking for the perfect ITX replacement, I stumbled upon the Chinese CW-NAS-ADLN-K motherboard, which looked perfect on paper: In

Spec-dec has been a thing for a while, in fact, it's wasn't an idea that was born for LLM inference. E.g. Uber's https://github.com/uber/submitqueue applied it to a merge queue. Apple & GDM had been r

Not the biggest or shiniest, but it's mine From gaming machine inference on the original llama models, to a 4x RTX 6000 Pro Max Q + 4x 3090s local AI cluster. Pictures are in reverse chronological ord

Its a custom Swift/Metal inference engine that runs Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on M-series Macs with very low RAM. It uses ~2GB instead of ~14 GB. The result is reportedly 5–6 tok/s on an 8 GB M2 MacBook Air

I've been building a C99 inference engine from scratch (no Python, no BLAS, just gcc and make) that runs BitNet's ternary models on CPU. A few weeks ago I got obsessed with the matmul kernel - wrote a

BitNet b1.58 uses ternary weights (-1, 0, 1) and achieves performance comparable to full-precision transformers , enabling efficient LLM inference on CPUs and edge devices. While research into efficie

Inspired by TypeSafe's Jev (a non-generative model that only outputs bounded decisions — choices, probabilities, calibrated confidence), I built two small decision models end-to-end on identical budge

Strata vs Infernix on the same model, RTX 5090 — A/B at 262k and 512k context Hi folks, another inference engine post for your feed. I was blown away by Strata, but saw someone else post about Inferni

Someone who has always loved looking at the space between different AI techniques, this time I went a little deeper into the memory trade-offs between RNNs, Transformers and SSMs. I found it interesti

Hi folks, LIVE PROJECT PAGE TLDR: Moral of the story. You need better CPU to do actual agentic coding doing real work... I've been on a mission to make my RTX5090 go brrr for past 2 months so much so

Hi everyone, Sharing a personal project exploring the minimal bare-metal footprint required to run an autoregressive LLM. Instead of relying on large runtimes or compiler abstractions, I wrote an infe

Using only information you actually have from my conversation history, memory, files, or other context available to you, build a practical “operating manual” for me. Do not flatter me, diagnose me, or

TL;DR: I run a mismatched Tesla V100-PCIE pair—one 16 GB card and one 32 GB card, 48 GB total—in a Proxmox/LXC-based local-inference lab. The practical winner so far is a recent CUDA build of llama.cp

Note: This writeup was put together with the help of AI. So I've got dual AMD MI50 32GB cards. If you know these cards, you know the story - AMD dropped official ROCm support for gfx906 after ROCm 5.7

I've been working on something that started as the training backend for my Hierarchos architecture, but it has grown into a much broader project: https://github.com/necat101/Hierarchos-Native Hierarch

A few weeks ago, I saw this post where the author trained a SIREN MLP to implicitly memorize Bad Apple as a coordinate function: (t, y, x) to pixel. That got me curious about a slightly different form

I'm testing a new approach for reducing the cost of image-based LLM inference. I evaluated it on the MOMA Graph benchmark, using 1,315 questions. Compared with using GPT-4o to process the original ima

I'm planning to upgrade my workstation (linux with 5700X/64GB DDR4) for local inference and pytorch training. I'm trying to decide between: 2× AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB 2× AMD Radeon PRO W7800 48GB

Megathread for discussing the release of GLM-5.3-Flash. Quants Fine-Tunes & Abliterations Chat Templates Inference Server Support & Configuration Experiences, Benchmarks & Model Comparisons We'll try

been building ShardFlow for the past few months, a distributed LLM inference framework that splits any HuggingFace transformer across N GPU machines and uses neural speculative decoding to deal with W

Earlier this year I posted about building what at the time I believe was the first 16x DGX Spark Cluster. I’m now adding 20 more Sparks to the cluster in my homelab server rack, giving me 4.6TB of uni

VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet is a compressed variant of VibeVoice-ASR optimized for real-time inference on edge CPUs — no GPU required. Through heterogeneous quantization, the model is compressed from 4.62 GB

I’ve spent the past month trying to find the point where an extremely small TTS model stops feeling like a size experiment and starts feeling genuinely useful. Today I’m releasing Inflect v2, with two

Claude Desktop has a third-party inference feature that lets you replace Anthropic's API with any model provider, including a local AI model running entirely on your machine. This feature can be activ

Variational Joint Embedding (VJE) is a framework that synthesizes joint embedding and variational inference to enable self-supervised learning of probabilistic representations in a reconstruction-free

INT3 compression with fused Metal kernels enables large language models to compute attention operations directly on compressed (INT3/INT4) key-value cache representations using custom GPU kernels that

Ollama is a local inference engine designed for running pre-built LLMs on your own machine, and it does not include fine-tuning capabilities — this distinction is correct. Unsloth (and its Unsloth Stu

A Reddit post from r/ChatGPT where a user shares an example of ChatGPT successfully inferring meaning or intent from a vague or ambiguous prompt that lacked sufficient explicit context. The post likel

https://preview.redd.it/kudj7xii5ivh1.png?width=1508&format=png&auto=webp&s=07712e81310b81aceb2cf8f4d8a7c2eadeb0c304 Just built a new PC, full parts list is here. I am using Deadcode's Radiance infere

I've been working on an inference engine called jitllm. The idea came from my background in operating systems and JIT compilers: generate kernels for whatever hardware is there, and treat layers a bit

Quartermaster (my local inference manager: one server that swaps llama.cpp, image, audio and video models in and out of VRAM) can now help you server and manage decision models: Auto-discovered. Drop

I’ve been building SonicBoom, a native tensor runtime written in C++/CUDA with a C ABI and no Python anywhere in the stack. I just tagged v0.0.1, and the first target is local LLM inference on consume

Basalt: Blackwell inference engine Hi all! So over the last week I've been working on a Strata fork that's heavily tuned and can achieve throughput up to 2.6x what Strata usually does on the same weig

Disclosure: I work at H2O.ai. We released H2O-Lightning-4B, an open-weight (Apache-2.0) model for the 'decisions API' style of inference that Jev made popular: you send a state plus typed questions (p

LemonSeed Studio is an iPad editor/IDE with on-device inference on an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure. It embeds the unmodified upstream Linux amdgpu + amdkfd driver (mac_linuxgpu) as a PCIDriverKi

I've been tinkering with GLM-5.3-Flash on two 64GB CMP 170HX cards for a while, and the setup is finally stable enough that I figured I'd share it. I also compared it against the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next se

EmbeddingGemma 2 came out this week. It maps images and text into one 768-dim space, so you can search photos by describing them. I ported its text and vision towers to ruNNtime, a WebGPU inference li

Liquid just dropped d1-omni-600M and it's a decision model! I ported it to runntime, the WebGPU inference library I'm currently working on. It's plain TypeScript on top of TypeGPU with no WASM and vir

Hello llamas. I am posting this because I believe that, despite it being closed source models, the discussion will bring value to the local AI community. As many of you probably heard, GPT-6 Astra is

Introducing InferBench: A benchmark testing how well frontier LLMs infer a user's priorities from their instructions. We tested 12 LLMs across 20 scenarios with 2.8k conversations to see which models

Following on from club-5060ti and club-rdna16, I’ve put together Infermeld: a small, open-source Linux companion kit for running one GGUF across an AMD GPU and an NVIDIA GPU, powered by llama.cpp. I’m