WOwoadwarrior01·Apr 14, 2025
Glad to see that the code[1] is AGPL-3.0 licensed.
[1]: https://github.com/transformerlab/transformerlab-app
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transformerlab-app
The open source research environment for AI researchers to seamlessly train, evaluate, and scale models from local hardware to GPU clusters.
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The open source research environment for AI researchers to seamlessly train, evaluate, and scale models from local hardware to GPU clusters.
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What Hacker News says
6 sourcesShow HN: Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI Platform, for Local Models
Hi everyone, we’re a small team, supported by Mozilla, who are working on re-imagining a UI for training, tuning and testing local LLMs. Everything is open source. If you’ve been training your own LLMs or have always wanted to, we’d love for you to play with the tool and give feedback on what the future development experience for LLM engineering could look like.
93 points · Open discussionSome of the tools offer a path to doing tool use (fetching URLs and doing things with them) or RAG (searching your documents). I think Oobabooga https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui offers the latter through plugins.
Our tool, https://github.com/transformerlab/transformerlab-app also supports the latter (document search) using local llms.
In Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?If you are looking for a downloadable app as an alternative to Oobabooga / Sillytavern, we built https://github.com/transformerlab/transformerlab-app as a way to easily download, interact, and even train local llms.
In Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?Transformer Lab: Experiment with Large Language Models
1 points · Open discussionShow HN: Transformer Lab – Download, interact, and train models locally
Transformer Lab is an open source tool that lets you interact, train, and evaluate LLMs on your own machine or in the cloud (currently Mac or Linux, Windows soon) through a simple GUI.
Try it out here:
https://github.com/transformerlab/transformerlab-app
One of our goals is to make it as easy as possible to get started experimenting with LLMs regardless of what platform you have (even if you don’t have a GPU). You can do everything through the UI but it is built on an API that can be extended using plugins. When you start the app it will try to figure out what kind of system you have and install the right set of initial plugins to get you going optimally.
Some things you can do locally:
- Download and interact with LLMs
- Fine tune and evaluate your own models
- Export models to formats that will allow you to run in smaller memory or with
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out a GPU (e.g. export to GGUF or MLX)
It comes with a library of models and datasets to get going easily, but you can also download any model shared on Hugging Face and build your own training data.
Why we built this: we have been really interested in research and experimentation with LLMs but what we found was that the tooling for going deeper is lacking — Transformer Lab was built to address that problem.
We are a small, unfunded team and we’re excited to build a lot more on top of this platform. So any feedback on how to simplify getting started or how to make this more valuable for experimenting locally would be really appreciated.