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AI powered open source recommender system engine supports classical/LLM rankers and multimodal content via embedding
9.7K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationGoMachine Learning
$ npx skills add gorse-io/gorseAlternatives
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#2
Label Studio is a multi-type data labeling and annotation tool with standardized output format
28K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationTypeScriptMLOps
$ npx skills add HumanSignal/label-studio#3
Free MLOps course from DataTalks.Club
15K starsJun 10, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp#4
Learn how to develop, deploy and iterate on production-grade ML applications.
48K starsMar 4, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMLOps
$ npx skills add GokuMohandas/Made-With-ML#5
Always know what to expect from your data.
12K starsJun 13, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMLOps
$ npx skills add fivetran/great_expectations#6
Containers for machine learning
9.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationGoMachine Learning
$ npx skills add replicate/cog#7
Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on 1 or 10,000+ GPUs with zero code changes.
31K starsJun 10, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning#8
Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow
28K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add dmlc/xgboost#9
Google Research
38K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add google-research/google-research#10
CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), Predict the most relevant text snippet given an image
34K starsMar 25, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add openai/CLIP#11
The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line
57K starsJun 25, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ageitgey/face_recognition#12
Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks.
80K starsFeb 5, 2026 pushml-automationMachine Learning
$ npx skills add mlabonne/llm-course#13
The Modular Platform (includes MAX & Mojo)
26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationMojoMachine Learning
$ npx skills add modular/modular#14
Datasets, Transforms and Models specific to Computer Vision
18K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add pytorch/vision#15
Tensor library for machine learning
15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add ggml-org/ggml#16
NLTK Source
15K starsJun 11, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add nltk/nltkHow to choose
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