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About Liger-Kernel
Liger-Kernel is a collection of efficient Triton kernels designed to accelerate large language model training. It provides drop-in replacements for common operations like attention and normalization, reducing memory usage and improving throughput. The kernels are implemented in Python using OpenAI's Triton language.
Best for
Developers training large language models who want to optimize throughput and memory without rewriting their training loops.
Use cases
- Speed up LLM training by replacing standard PyTorch operations with optimized kernels
- Reduce GPU memory consumption during training of large transformer models
- Integrate into existing training pipelines with minimal code changes
Notes
6,400 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed BSD-2-Clause.
Pros
- Significant performance gains with simple drop-in replacement
- Open source with 6,400 GitHub stars indicating community trust
- Reduces memory footprint, enabling larger batch sizes or models
Cons
- Requires Triton compiler and compatible GPU hardware
- Limited to operations covered by the provided kernels
- May not support all model architectures or custom layers
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- 0.8.5 (released 21 Oct 2026)
- GitHub stars
- 6,633
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Stars and usage
How Liger-Kernel is growing
6,400 to 6,633
Alternatives
Alternatives to Liger-Kernel
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| Colossal-AIThis is an alternative to it | Open source | Named in the listing | Not dated |
| DeepSpeedThis is an alternative to it | Open source | Named in the listing | Not dated |
| unslothaiThis is an alternative to it | Open source | Named in the listing | Not dated |
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Sources
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- GitHubOfficial
- github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438Registry
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Changelog
What changed
Released 0.8.5
Released 0.8.4
Released 0.8.3
Released 0.8.2
Released 0.8.1
Released 0.8.0
Released 0.7.0
Released 0.6.5
Released 0.6.4
Released 0.6.3
Open-source & AI alternatives
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Colossal-AI
Community
Making large AI models cheaper, faster and more accessible
DeepSpeed
Community
DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.
unslothai
Community
Unsloth Studio is a web UI for training and running open models like Gemma 4, Qwen3.6, DeepSeek, gpt-oss locally.
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