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Hierarchos-Native

A native rust-vulkan backend for training hierarchos and modern transformer model architectures, supporting PEFT finetuning, full training, and inference

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GITHUB · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 17 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views

Niche: deep learning frameworks · 48 launches, 0 in the last 7 days ▼ -100% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Model & infra
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Writing a native transformer training and PEFT backend from scratch in Rust and Vulkan requires advanced GPU compute programming and deep ML systems engineering.

What it would actually take: Requires writing custom Vulkan compute shaders (SPIR-V) for matrix multiplication and attention mechanisms, along with an autograd engine, memory allocators, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) algorithms in Rust. This necessitates ML compiler engineers with deep expertise in Vulkan compute APIs and low-level GPU acceleration.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 4296 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1913 of 4297 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.

  • saber-engine · github · 2026-11-05 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • OpenDLSS-NR · github · 2026-09-20 · 371 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • ncnn.rust · github · 2026-11-08 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • solidcore · github · 2026-10-12 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • GitHub · hn · 2026-01-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • NeuralScript · hn · 2026-05-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • TandemLLM · github · 2026-09-28 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • rdx · github · 2026-09-21 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.58

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