/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.

Previous threads: >>106996568 & >>106986408

►News
>(10/21) Qwen3-VL 2B and 32B released: https://hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct
>(10/20) DeepSeek-OCR 3B with optical context compression released: https://hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
>(10/20) merged model : add BailingMoeV2 support #16063: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/16063
>(10/17) LlamaBarn released for Mac: https://github.com/ggml-org/LlamaBarn
>(10/17) REAP: Router-weighted expert pruning: https://github.com/CerebrasResearch/reap

►News Archive: https://rentry.org/lmg-news-archive
►Glossary: https://rentry.org/lmg-glossary
►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks
►Official /lmg/ card: https://files.catbox.moe/cbclyf.png

►Getting Started
https://rentry.org/lmg-lazy-getting-started-guide
https://rentry.org/lmg-build-guides
https://rentry.org/IsolatedLinuxWebService
https://rentry.org/recommended-models
https://rentry.org/samplers

►Further Learning
https://rentry.org/machine-learning-roadmap
https://rentry.org/llm-training
https://rentry.org/LocalModelsPapers

►Benchmarks
LiveBench: https://livebench.ai
Programming: https://livecodebench.github.io/leaderboard.html
Code Editing: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards
Context Length: https://github.com/adobe-research/NoLiMa
GPUs: https://github.com/XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference

►Tools
Alpha Calculator: https://desmos.com/calculator/ffngla98yc
GGUF VRAM Calculator: https://hf.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calculator
Sampler Visualizer: https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling

►Text Gen. UI, Inference Engines
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm