FareedKhan-dev/train-llm-from-scratch
A straightforward method for training your LLM, from downloading data to generating text.
12.1k stars · 1.7k forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 90% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 102
- Human commits, 90 days
- 105
- Human commits, 365 days
- 132
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 3
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 7 hours
Responsiveness: of 3 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 3 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 132 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 13
Top committers
- FareedKhan-dev: 90% of commits
- fareed-khan: 3% of commits
- OHUVERSE: 2% of commits
- Abellegese: 1% of commits
- Chamath-Adithya: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- May 17, 2026 to Jun 27, 2026: about 6.9k more stars than usual, peak 797 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 28, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 165 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 20, 2026 to Aug 20, 2026: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 18, 2026 to Oct 2, 2026: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 539 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
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[](https://reporadar.ai/FareedKhan-dev/train-llm-from-scratch)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 7 hours ago · method 2026.10.2