languagelight
Languagelight is a cross-platform, open-source framework designed to enable the creation and deployment of lightweight natural language processing models and pipelines for edge devices and offline use. The project emphasizes efficiency, portability, and a minimal runtime footprint, supporting constrained hardware such as mobile phones, embedded systems, and low-power servers. It provides modular components for tokenization, encoding, decoding, and post-processing, along with a compact intermediate representation and tooling for quantization and model distillation.
The project originated in 2019 at the Languagelight Consortium, with initial releases in 2020, aiming to lower
The core library is implemented in C++ with bindings for Python and JavaScript, enabling efficient deployment
Languagelight is used for mobile assistants, offline translation on handheld devices, sentiment analysis in wearables, and
As of 2024, languagelight has a growing but modest ecosystem. Some critics note its smaller model zoo