LitGPT
Recipes for pretraining and finetuning open LLMs
LitGPT is a collection of open-source implementations of 20+ large language models with recipes for pretraining, finetuning, and deployment. Maintained by Lightning AI, it is built for running models on your own hardware.
Key features
- 20+ model implementations
- Pretraining and finetuning recipes
- Quantization support
- Self-host friendly
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Mature project with 13.6k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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