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The LF AI & Data Foundation is a project of The Linux Foundation that supports open source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and data open source projects. The LF AI & Data Foundation was created to support numerous technical projects within this important space.
With the LF AI & Data Foundation, members are working to create a neutral space for harmonization and acceleration of separate technical projects focused on AI, ML, DL and Data technologies.
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Current Projects
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SANDBOX | 1chipML is an open source library for basic numerical crunching and machine learning for microcontrollers. As the Internet of Things and Edge Computing are becoming a ubiquitous reality, we need to a reliable and open framework to use on limited and low power demanding hardware. | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | Acumos is an Open Source Platform, which supports design, integration and deployment of AI models. Furthermore, Acumos supports an AI marketplace that empowers data scientists to publish adaptive AI models, while shielding them from the need to custom develop fully integrated solutions. GitHub: https://github.com/acumos | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Adlik is an end-to-end optimizing framework for deep learning models. The goal of Adlik is to accelerate deep learning inference process both on cloud and embedded environment. GitHub: https://github.com/Adlik | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Amundsen is a data discovery and metadata engine for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data. GitHub: https://github.com/amundsen-io | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | Angel is a high-performance distributed machine learning platform based on the philosophy of Parameter Server. It is tuned for performance with big data from Tencent and has a wide range of applicability and stability, demonstrating increasing advantage in handling higher dimension model. | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) provides tools that enable developers and researchers to evaluate, defend, certify and verify Machine Learning models and applications against the adversarial threats. GitHub: https://github.com/Trusted-AI/adversarial-robustness-toolbox | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | AI Explainability 360 is an open source toolkit that can help users better understand the ways that machine learning models predict labels using a wide variety of techniques throughout the AI application lifecycle. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | AI Fairness 360 is an extensible open source toolkit that can help users understand and mitigate bias in machine learning models throughout the AI application lifecycle. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | Artigraph is a tool to improve the authorship, management, and quality of data. It emphasizes that the core deliverable of a data pipeline or workflow is the data, not the tasks. Artigraph aims to shift tooling focus towards managing the entire data lifecycle (lineage, metadata, schema, storage formats and systems, etc). | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | BeyondML is a framework for developing sparse neural networks that can perform multiple tasks across multiple data domains. This framework provides value to the community by: - simplifying of the development and deployment of advanced machine learning capabilities for use on low-end devices and in dynamic environments characteristic of the resource-constrained edge - reducing in the complexity and cost of deploying ML models or systems of models to cloud platforms - reducing in the carbon footprint of deployed ML models | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Within the Bitol project, the primary objective is to tackle multiple challenges, such as data normalization, ensuring the relevance of documentation, establishing service-level expectations, simplifying data and tool integration, and promoting a data product-oriented approach. These efforts offer several advantages, including stimulating innovation and streamlining integration processes. Github: https://github.com/bitol-io | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | CLAIMED (Component Library for AI, Machine Learning, ETL and Data Science) is a runtime and programming language agnostic Data & AI component framework abstracting away all complexity for advanced MLOps and TrustedAI. Donated by the IBM Center for Open Source Data and AI Technologies, the project aims to democratize Data & AI by providing empowerment for Data Scientists to take on MLOps and TrustedAI, as well as Citizen Data Scientists to to use no-code/low-code tooling. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Datashim is enabling and accelerating data access for Kubernetes/Openshift workloads in a transparent and declarative way. It's opensource since September of 2019 and it is growing to support use-cases related to data access in AI projects. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | DataPractices.org was pioneered by data.world as a “Manifesto for Data Practices” of four values and 12 principles that illustrate the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. As a member of the foundation, datapractices.org will expand to offer open courseware and establish a collaborative approach to defining and refining data best practices. GitHub: https://github.com/datadotworld/data-practices-site | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | DeepCausality is a hyper-geometric computational causality library that enables fast and deterministic context-aware causal reasoning over complex multi-stage causality models. Deep Causality adds only minimal overhead and thus is suitable for real-time applications without additional acceleration hardware. GitHub: https://github.com/deepcausality-rs/deep_causality | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | DeepRec is a high-performance recommendation deep learning framework based on TensorFlow. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | DELTA is a deep learning based end-to-end natural language and speech processing platform. DELTA aims to provide easy and fast experiences for using, deploying, and developing natural language processing and speech models for both academia and industry use cases. DELTA is mainly implemented using TensorFlow and Python 3. GitHub: https://github.com/didi/delta | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Delta Lake is an open source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. GitHub: https://github.com/delta-io | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | The mission of the DLRover Project is to make the distributed training of large AI models easy, stable, fast and green through the training of deep learning models on a distributed cluster. GitHub: https://github.com/intelligent-machine-learning/dlrover | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | DocArray is a library for nested, unstructured, multimodal data in transit, including text, image, audio, video, 3D mesh, etc. It allows deep-learning engineers to efficiently process, embed, search, recommend, store, and transfer the multi-modal data with a Pythonic API. GitHub: https://github.com/docarray | |||||||||||||||||
| INCUBATION | Elastic Deep Learning (EDL) optimizes the global utilization of the cluster running deep learning job and the waiting time of job submitters. It includes two parts: a Kubernetes controller for the elastic scheduling of distributed deep learning jobs, and a fault-tolerable deep learning framework. | ||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | Egeria is an open source project dedicated to making metadata open and automatically exchanged between tools and platforms, no matter which vendor they come from. GitHub: https://github.com/odpi/egeria | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | Elyra is an open-source low code / no code framework for creating reproducible, scalable and component based data science pipelines. It allows senior data scientist to create reusable components easily. Citizen data scientists can reuse their code without programming skills. MLOps engineers are provided with tested and maintainable deliverables, and scale on Kubeflow, Airflow and others. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | FATE (Federated AI Technology Enabler) is the world's first industrial grade federated learning open source framework to enable enterprises and institutions to collaborate on data while protecting data security and privacy. It implements secure computation protocols based on homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation (MPC). Supporting various federated learning scenarios, FATE now provides a host of federated learning algorithms, including logistic regression, tree-based algorithms, deep learning and transfer learning. GitHub: https://github.com/FederatedAI | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Feast is an open source feature store for machine learning. It was developed as a collaboration between Gojek and Google in 2018. Feast aims to: -- Provide scalable and performant access to feature data for ML models during training or serving. -- Provide a consistent view of features for both training and serving. -- Enable re-use of features through discovery, documentation, and metadata tracking. --Ensures model performance by tracking, validating, and monitoring features in production. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | Feathr is an enterprise-grade, high-performance feature store. Feathr automatically computes your feature values and joins them to your training data, using point-in-time-correct semantics to avoid data leakage, and supports materializing and deploying your features for use online in production. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | FlagAI (Fast LArge-scale General AI models) is a fast, easy-to-use and extensible toolkit for large-scale model. Our goal is to support training, fine-tuning, and deployment of large-scale models on various downstream tasks with multi-modality. Currently, we are focusing on NLP models and tasks. In the near future, we will support for other modalities. | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | Flyte is a production-grade, declarative, structured and highly scalable cloud-native workflow orchestration platform. It allows users to describe their ML/Data pipelines using Python, Java or (in the future other languages) and Flyte manages the data flow, parallelization, scaling and orchestration of these pipelines. Flyte builds on top of Docker containers and kubernetes. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | ForestFlow is a scalable policy-based cloud-native machine learning model server. ForestFlow strives to strike a balance between the flexibility it offers data scientists and the adoption of standards while reducing friction between Data Science, Engineering and Operations teams. | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | Horovod, a distributed training framework for TensorFlow, Keras and PyTorch, improves speed, scale and resource allocation in machine learning training activities. Uber uses Horovod for self-driving vehicles, fraud detection, and trip forecasting. It is also being used by Alibaba, Amazon and NVIDIA. Contributors to the project outside Uber include Amazon, IBM, Intel and NVIDIA. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | Intersectional Fairness (ISF) is a bias detection and mitigation technology for intersectional bias, which combinations of multiple protected attributes cause. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | The goal of the Interoperability Initiative is to enable voice and conversational AI to work like the web. Before us is a future where users can freely find and make use of any conversational assistant and language model that addresses their goals, just as they do now with web pages. Our path toward achieving this goal is to define, develop, and promote standards – beginning with an open, universal application programming interface (API) – which will enable any conversational assistant that follows the standards to freely interoperate with other standards-using assistants to connect, communicate, and transfer content and control across assistants, platforms, and language models. We encourage you to learn more about our interoperability work by following the links below, where you can learn about our approach, process, future work, and how to get involved. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | IREE (Intermediate Representation Execution Environment) is an MLIR-based end-to-end compiler and runtime that lowers Machine Learning (ML) models to a unified IR that scales up to meet the needs of the datacenter and down to satisfy the constraints and special considerations of mobile and edge deployments. IREE is a sandbox-stage project of LF AI & Data Foundation. IREE was donated to LF AI & Data Foundation by Google and AMD in May 2024. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | JanusGraph is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Kedro is an open-source Python framework for creating reproducible, maintainable and modular data science code. It borrows concepts from software engineering best-practice and applies them to machine-learning code; applied concepts include modularity, separation of concerns and versioning. GitHub: https://github.com/kedro-org | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Kompute is a general purpose GPU compute framework for cross vendor graphics cards (AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA & friends). Blazing fast, mobile-enabled, asynchronous and optimized for advanced GPU data processing use cases. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | KServe provides a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition for serving machine learning (ML) models on arbitrary frameworks. It aims to solve production model serving use cases by providing performant, high abstraction interfaces for common ML frameworks like Tensorflow, XGBoost, ScikitLearn, PyTorch, and ONNX. It encapsulates the complexity of autoscaling, networking, health checking, and server configuration to bring cutting edge serving features like GPU Autoscaling, Scale to Zero, and Canary Rollouts to your ML deployments. It enables a simple, pluggable, and complete story for Production ML Serving including prediction, pre-processing, post-processing and explainability. GitHub: https://github.com/kserve | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | LakeSoul is a cloud-native Lakehouse framework developed by DMetaSoul team, and supports scalable metadata management, ACID transactions, efficient and flexible upsert operation, schema evolution, and unified streaming & batch processing. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Ludwig is a toolbox built on top of TensorFlow that allows to train and test deep learning models without the need to write code. All you need to provide is your data, a list of fields to use as inputs, and a list of fields to use as outputs, Ludwig will do the rest. Simple commands can be used to train models both locally and in a distributed way, and to use them to predict on new data. GitHub: https://github.com/uber/ludwig | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | Marquez is an open source metadata service for the collection, aggregation, and visualization of a data ecosystem’s metadata. It maintains the provenance of how datasets are consumed and produced, provides global visibility into job runtime and frequency of dataset access, centralization of dataset lifecycle management, and much more. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Milvus is an open source similarity search engine for massive-scale feature vectors. Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources. Milvus can be used in a wide variety of scenarios to boost AI development. GitHub: https://github.com/milvus-io | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | AI Observability as a Service. A domain specific tracing + metrics framework for monitoring generative AI applications. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | NNStreamer (Neural Network Support as Gstreamer Plugins) is a set of Gstreamer plugins that support ease and efficiency for Gstreamer developers adopting neural network models and neural network developers managing neural network pipelines and their filters. GitHub: https://github.com/nnstreamer | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | ONNX is an open format to represent deep learning models. With ONNX, AI developers can more easily move models between state-of-the-art tools and choose the combination that is best for them. ONNX is developed and supported by a community of partners. GitHub: https://github.com/onnx | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | OpenBytes aims to facilitate wider sharing of, and collaboration with, data in the AI community through the promotion of data standards and formats and enabling contributions of data. The value of this project lies in its stimulus on academic interest and AI innovation by promoting high-quality datasets and pushing the boundaries of science further. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | OpenDataology is an open source dataset license compliance analysis project. It enables users of publicly available datasets and users who curate datasets from multiple data sources (particularly for use as a part of machine learning models) to identify the potential license compliance risks. OpenDataology consists primarily of three key components.
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INCUBATION | OpenDS4All is a project created to accelerate the creation of data science curricula at academic institutions. Our goal is to provide recommendations, slide sets, sample Jupyter notebooks, and other materials for creating, customizing, and delivering data science and data engineering education. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | OpenFL is a Python 3 library for federated learning that enables organizations to collaboratively train a model without sharing sensitive information. GitHub: https://github.com/intel/openfl | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | OpenLineage proposes an open standard and API for lineage collection that data processing engines can implement to publish at run time details of the data sources that it is reading, the types of processing it is performing and the destination of the results. GitHub: https://github.com/OpenLineage | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | The mission of the Open Model Initiative (OMI) is to support open community development of openly licensed baseline AI models for image, video and audio generation that individuals and organizations can use and augment in their own solutions. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | The mission of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) Project is to develop an ecosystem orchestration framework to efficiently integrate performant GenAI technologies and workflows leading to quicker GenAI adoption and business value. GitHub: https://github.com/opea-project | |||||||||||||||||
GRADUATE | Pyro is a universal probabilistic programming language (PPL) written in Python and supported by PyTorch on the backend. Pyro enables flexible and expressive deep probabilistic modeling, unifying the best of modern deep learning and Bayesian modeling. GitHub: https://github.com/pyro-ppl/pyro | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | The Recommenders repository provides examples and best practices for building recommendation systems, provided as Jupyter notebooks. The module recommenders contains functions to simplify common tasks used when developing and evaluating recommender systems. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | RosaeNLG is a template-based Natural Language Generation (NLG) automates the production of relatively repetitive texts based on structured input data and textual templates, run by a NLG engine. Production usage is widespread in large corporations, especially in the financial industry. GitHub: https://github.com/RosaeNLG/ | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | RWKV is an RNN with transformer-level LLM performance. It can be directly trained like a GPT (parallelizable). So it's combining the best of RNN and transformer - great performance, fast inference, saves VRAM, fast training, "infinite" ctx_len, and free sentence embedding. GitHub: https://github.com/rwkv/ | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | Ryoma a general LLM agentic framework designed for data analysis. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | Automatic machine learning, commonly referred to as AutoML, holds great promise in democratizing the utilization of machine learning (ML) by automating a large portion of the work typically performed by data scientists. However, the vast search space of potential pipelines poses a challenge, often resulting in suboptimal or no pipelines being generated, particularly when dealing with large and complex datasets. SapientML addresses this issue by leveraging a collection of pre-existing datasets and their human-created pipelines, enabling efficient generation of high-quality pipelines for new datasets with predictive tasks. With SapientML, data scientists can rapidly create and amend AI models, as the code is provided along with detailed explanations. Furthermore, citizen data scientists can easily create the desired AI models as well. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | ShaderNN is a lightweight deep learning inference framework optimized for Convolutional Neural Networks. It provides high-performance inference for deep learning applications in image and graphics process on mobile devices. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | SOAJS is an open source microservices and API management platform, SOAJS eliminates the IT plumbing challenges, so you can deploy microservices significantly earlier and faster. IT initiatives such as digital transformation are simplified, accelerated, cost reduced, and risk mitigated. Our fully integrated, world-class API lifecycle management, multi-cloud orchestration, release management, and IT Ops automation capabilities eliminate your IT organization’s modernization pain. GitHub: https://github.com/soajs | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Substra is a framework offering distributed orchestration of machine learning tasks among partners while guaranteeing secure and trustless traceability of all operations. It enables privacy-preserving federated learning projects, where multiple parties collaborate on a Machine Learning objective while each one keeps their private datasets behind their own firewall. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | sparklyr is an R package that lets you analyze data in Spark while using familiar tools in R. sparklyr supports a complete backend for dplyr, a popular tool for working with data frame objects both in memory and out of memory. You can use dplyr to translate R code into Spark SQL. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | Trust Mark works toward translating ethical principles specific to conversational AI into action and risk mitigation for developers, enterprise users – principles, LF EdX education, maturity model, and specifications. | |||||||||||||||||
INCUBATION | vLLM is fostering the development of an open-source library for fast LLM inference and serving. | |||||||||||||||||
SANDBOX | Xtreme1 is the next generation open source platform for multi-sensory training data. It accelerates the modeling process by advanced AI-powered tools, thousands of projects distilled ontologies, and plentiful data curation features. GitHub: https://github.com/basicai/xtreme1 |
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