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ml-ane-transformers
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apple-aiml-research / ml-ane-transformers

ml-ane-transformers

Reference implementation of the Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Neural Engine (ANE)

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What it is

Reference implementation of the Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Neural Engine (ANE)

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Observed mentions: 2022-06-08 12:13:21 UTC to 2025-10-15 14:55:20 UTC.

01232022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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behnamoh·May 3, 2025
I wonder if Apple ever followed up with this: https://github.com/apple/ml-ane-transformers They claim their ANE-optimized models achieve "up to 10 times faster and 14 times lower peak memory consumption compared to baseline implementations." AFAIK, neither MLX nor llama.cpp support ANE. Though llama.cpp started exploring this idea [0]. What's weird is that MLX is made by Apple and yet, they can't support ANE given its closed-source API! [1] [0]: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/10453 [1]: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/issues/18#issuecomment-184...
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