npuforge
Convert a Stable Diffusion 1.5 or SDXL checkpoint into a Qualcomm NPU model on the phone itself, with no PC. Supports LoRA merging.
Details
- External ID
- 1369234812
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- npuforge
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3866256725595696
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ML inference and model optimization
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- on-device stable diffusion model converter for qualcomm npus
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Converting, quantizing, and compiling massive diffusion models directly on mobile hardware into Qualcomm NPU formats (QNN/DLC) requires specialized low-level mobile AI and hardware compiler expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires an Android native C++/JNI layer integrating Qualcomm AI Engine Direct (QNN SDK), building an on-device quantization and model graph compilation engine, and managing device memory tightly to perform multi-gigabyte SDXL model graph transformations and LoRA weight fusion without hitting OS OOM limits.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #6 of 12 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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