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Flashlight alternatives for AI agents.

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Flashlight

A C++ standalone library for machine learning

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#1

Serving

Similarity 155Trust 94Excellent 100

A flexible, high-performance serving system for machine learning models

6.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add tensorflow/serving
#2

Oneflow

Similarity 154Trust 91Excellent 93

OneFlow is a deep learning framework designed to be user-friendly, scalable and efficient.

9.4K starsDec 4, 2025 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add Oneflow-Inc/oneflow
#3

Tensorflow

Similarity 150Trust 95Excellent 100

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

196K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add tensorflow/tensorflow
#4

Handson Ml

Similarity 144Trust 97Excellent 100

⛔️ DEPRECATED – See https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml3 or handson-mlp instead.

26K starsMay 19, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ageron/handson-ml
#5

Pytorch

Similarity 143Trust 91Excellent 100

Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration

101K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add pytorch/pytorch
#6

Paddle

Similarity 142Trust 97Excellent 100

PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning: Machine Learning Framework from Industrial Practice (『飞桨』核心框架,深度学习&机器学习高性能单机、分布式训练和跨平台部署)

24K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/Paddle
#7

MNN

Similarity 141Trust 98Excellent 100

MNN: A blazing-fast, lightweight inference engine battle-tested by Alibaba, powering high-performance on-device LLMs and Edge AI.

15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add alibaba/MNN
#8

Mace

Similarity 141Trust 87Strong 77

MACE is a deep learning inference framework optimized for mobile heterogeneous computing platforms.

5.0K starsJun 17, 2024 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add XiaoMi/mace
#9

Dlib

Similarity 141Trust 96Excellent 100

A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

14K starsMay 7, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add davisking/dlib
#10

Djl

Similarity 140Trust 93Excellent 100

An Engine-Agnostic Deep Learning Framework in Java

4.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushml-automationJavaMachine Learning
$ npx skills add deepjavalibrary/djl
#11

Pennylane

Similarity 140Trust 94Excellent 100

PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. Create meaningful quantum algorithms, from inspiration to implementation.

3.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add PennyLaneAI/pennylane
#12

Tiny Dnn

Similarity 139Trust 79Strong 73

header only, dependency-free deep learning framework in C++14

6.0K starsApr 17, 2022 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add tiny-dnn/tiny-dnn
#13

Openpose

Similarity 137Trust 86Strong 82

OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation

34K starsAug 3, 2024 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose
#14

Caffe

Similarity 136Trust 84Strong 82

Caffe: a fast open framework for deep learning.

35K starsJul 31, 2024 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add BVLC/caffe
#15

Yolov5

Similarity 136Trust 96Excellent 100

Ultralytics YOLOv5 in PyTorch > ONNX > CoreML > TFLite

58K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ultralytics/yolov5
#16

Netron

Similarity 136Trust 95Excellent 100

Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models

33K starsJun 14, 2026 pushml-automationJavaScriptMachine Learning
$ npx skills add lutzroeder/netron

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