VIvishnukvmd·Jan 15, 2026Submission
Tract: Self-contained, TensorFlow and ONNX inference
2 points · Open discussionsonos
tract
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sonos / tract
tract
Tiny, no-nonsense, self-contained, Tensorflow and ONNX inference
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesThere's also tract, from Sonos[0]. 100% Rust[1].
I'm currently using it to do speech recognition with a variant of the Conformer architecture (exported to ONNX).
The final goal is to do it in WASM client-side.
[0] https://github.com/sonos/tract
[1] To be clear, I'm not saying that writing in Rust is some inherent advantage for an NN inference engine. But I personally gravitate to using libraries written in languages I know/want to learn, and Rust might be that for some people.
In Brain.js: GPU Accelerated Neural Networks in JavaScriptAs the article notes, there isn't any official Rust-native support for any common frameworks, and using a C wrapper limits its advantages.
tract (https://github.com/sonos/tract) seems like the most mature for ONNX (for which TF/PT export is good nowadays), and recently it successfully implemented BERT via Hugging Face ONNX export.
In Serving ML at the Speed of RustTract: Tiny, no-nonsense, self-contained, TensorFlow and ONNX inference
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