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About nanotron
Nanotron is a minimalistic framework for training large language models using 3D parallelism. It implements data, tensor, and pipeline parallelism in Python to distribute training across multiple GPUs.
Best for
Researchers and engineers who need a simple, hackable framework for distributed LLM training experiments.
Use cases
- Training large language models from scratch with distributed parallelism
- Experimenting with 3D parallelism strategies for model scaling
- Reproducing research results in distributed LLM training
Notes
2,705 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-05-26. Licensed Apache-2.0.
Pros
- Lightweight and focused on core parallelism techniques
- Active community with 2705 GitHub stars
- Integrates well with the Hugging Face ecosystem
Cons
- Limited to training, no inference or deployment features
- Minimal documentation beyond code comments
- Requires deep understanding of distributed training concepts
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- 0.4 (released 4 Mar 2024)
- GitHub stars
- 2,827
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Stars and usage
How nanotron is growing
2,705 to 2,827
Alternatives
Alternatives to nanotron
| Record | Type | How we know | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Megatron-LMThis 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 0.4
Released 0.3
Released 0.2
Released 0.1
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.
Megatron-LM
Community
Ongoing research training transformer models at scale
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