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Stagewise Knowledge Distillation alternatives for AI agents.

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Stagewise Knowledge Distillation

Code implementation of Data Efficient Stagewise Knowledge Distillation paper.

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#1

Local Deep Research

Similarity 117Trust 92Excellent 100

~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.

8.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#2

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 103Trust 90Excellent 100

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#3

Deep Research

Similarity 96Trust 92Excellent 100

An AI-powered research assistant that performs iterative, deep research on any topic by combining search engines, web scraping, and large language models. The goal of this repo is to provide the simplest implementation of a deep research agent - e.g. an agent that can refine its research direction overtime and deep dive into a topic.

19K starsApr 11, 2026 pushresearchTypeScriptResearch Agent
$ npx skills add dzhng/deep-research
#4

GPT Researcher

Similarity 96Trust 86Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#5

Last30days Skill

Similarity 90Trust 93Excellent 100

Research the last 30 days across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web, then synthesize a grounded brief for an AI agent.

44K starsJun 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
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Fastai

Similarity 83Trust 90Excellent 100

The fastai deep learning library

28K starsMay 20, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add fastai/fastai
#7

VoxCPM

Similarity 77Trust 93Excellent 100

VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning

31K starsJun 10, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add OpenBMB/VoxCPM
#8

Google Research

Similarity 75Trust 92Excellent 100

Google Research

38K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add google-research/google-research
#9

FinGPT

Similarity 75Trust 92Excellent 100

FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models! Revolutionize 🔥 We release the trained model on HuggingFace.

21K starsJun 1, 2026 pushfinanceJupyter NotebookFinance
$ npx skills add AI4Finance-Foundation/FinGPT
#10

Machine Learning Zoomcamp

Similarity 73Trust 87Excellent 100

Learn ML engineering for free in 4 months! Register here 👇🏼

13K starsJun 10, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add DataTalksClub/machine-learning-zoomcamp
#11

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 70Trust 94Excellent 100

LLM驱动的 A/H/美股智能分析:多数据源行情 + 实时新闻 + LLM决策仪表盘 + 多渠道推送,零成本定时运行,纯白嫖. LLM-powered stock analysis system for A/H/US markets.

52K starsJun 29, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add ZhuLinsen/daily_stock_analysis
#12

Diffusers

Similarity 70Trust 94Excellent 100

🤗 Diffusers: State-of-the-art diffusion models for image, video, and audio generation in PyTorch.

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add huggingface/diffusers
#13

Pytorch Lightning

Similarity 69Trust 93Excellent 100

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
#14

Keras

Similarity 69Trust 92Excellent 100

Deep Learning for humans

64K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add keras-team/keras
#15

Yolov5

Similarity 69Trust 92Excellent 100

Ultralytics YOLOv5 in PyTorch > ONNX > CoreML > TFLite

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

Qlib

Similarity 69Trust 92Excellent 100

Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse ML modeling paradigms, including supervised learning, market dynamics modeling, and RL, and is now equipped with https://github.com/microsoft/RD-Agent to automate R&D process.

44K starsApr 22, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add microsoft/qlib

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