ridgerchu/matmulfreellm

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A Python implementation of MatMul-Free LM, a language model architecture that eliminates matrix multiplication operations using ternary weights and linear attention. It is compatible with the Hugging Face Transformers library and provides pretrained models from 370M to 2.7B parameters.

Use cases

• train a language model without matrix multiplication
• run efficient LLM inference with ternary weights
• experiment with linear transformer architectures
• load a matmul-free model with huggingface AutoModel
• research hardware-efficient language model architectures
• compare scaling laws of matmul-free vs transformer models

When to choose

• you want to experiment with matmul-free or bit-linear LLM architectures
• you need a Hugging Face-compatible linear transformer implementation
• you are researching efficient language model scaling

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready general-purpose LLM framework
• you require standard transformer architectures with mature tooling
• you work outside the PyTorch/Triton ecosystem

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machine-learning llm-inference llm-training deep-learning large-language-models deep-learning machine-learning artificial-intelligence python matmul-free linear-transformer ternary-weights huggingface-transformers efficient-inference research gpu linux

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