Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Ongoing research training transformer models at scale
DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.
Deepspeed has the larger GitHub footprint with 42.3K stars.
Megatron LM is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Megatron LM has the stronger health score at 63/100.
| Signal | Megatron LM | Deepspeed |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 16.3K | 42.3K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | 63 | 63 |
| Contributors | 330 | 458 |
| Commits per week | 51.8 | 6.0 |
| Open issues | 775 | 1.3K |
| Language | Python | Python |
| License | NOASSERTION | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 15h ago | 19h ago |
| Last release | core_v0.16.1 | v0.19.0 |
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