runtime VS serving

For reference: In Tensorflow and JAX, for example, the tensor gets compiled to the intermediate XLA format (https://www.tensorflow.org/xla), then passed to the XLA complier (https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorflow/compiler/xla/service) or the new TFRT runtime (https://github.com/tensorflow/runtime/blob/master/documents/tfrt_host_runtime_design.md), or some more esoteric hardware (https://github.com/pytorch/glow).

what are your thoughts on https://github.com/tensorflow/runtime ?

Yet another TEDIOUS BATTLE: Python vs. C++/C stack.

This project gained popularity due to the HIGH DEMAND for running large models with 1B+ parameters, like `llama`. Python dominates the interface and training ecosystem, but prior to llama.cpp, non-ML professionals showed little interest in a fast C++ interface library. While existing solutions like tensorflow-serving [1] in C++ were sufficiently fast with GPU support, llama.cpp took the initiative to optimize for CPU and trim unnecessary code, essentially code-golfing and sacrificing some algorithm correctness for improved performance, which isn't favored by "ML research".

NOTE: In my opinion, a true pioneer was DarkNet, which implemented the YOLO model series and significantly outperformed others [2]. Same trick basically like llama.cpp

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/serving

I mean, probably - it's written in C++ https://github.com/tensorflow/serving

We’re looking into that solution at the moment, the issue I’m referring to is related to this https://github.com/tensorflow/serving/issues/1948 we’ll know if the plug-in approach works for our uses soon but haven’t started looking into implementing it yet

Which ML framework do you use? Tensorflow has https://github.com/tensorflow/serving. You could also use the Rust bindings to load a saved model and expose it using one of the Rust HTTP servers. It doesn't matter whether you trained your model in Python as long as you export its saved model.

Most likely it's a model server running something like https://github.com/tensorflow/serving and if there isn't a lot of load, the resource could kill some of its tasks. I wouldn't imagine it's sitting around pondering deep thoughts.

https://github.com/tensorflow/serving

https://thenewstack.io/tutorial-deploying-tensorflow-models-...

GitHub

You serve models via https://www.tensorflow.org/tfx/guide/serving which is written entirely in C++ (https://github.com/tensorflow/serving/tree/master/tensorflow_serving/model_servers), no Python on the serving path or in the shipped product.