llama.bend
Llama-architecture models (SmolLM2 135M, 360M, 1.7B) in Bend 2, token for token against PyTorch, with the shapes in the types
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GITHUB · launched Oct 13, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 73%)
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- Model & infra
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- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial The project is a small Llama-architecture inference implementation in Bend 2, a niche language. Getting token-for-token parity with PyTorch requires careful numerical work and an understanding of the Bend runtime, which vibe coding alone may not handle.
What it would actually take: The stack is the Bend 2 language and its HVM-based runtime, plus loading SmolLM2 weights from safetensors and tokenizers. The hard parts are matching PyTorch numerics (RoPE, RMSNorm, attention, sampling) exactly and making the tensor-shape typing work in Bend. This takes ML-systems knowledge and debugging against a reference implementation.
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Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
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