skyzh/tiny-llm
learn LLM inference system on Apple Silicon for systems engineers: build a tiny vLLM + Qwen
4.8k stars · 408 forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 71% 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
- 19
- Human commits, 90 days
- 121
- Human commits, 365 days
- 167
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Sep 27, 2026 (18 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Sep 27, 2026 (18 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 4
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 1 hour
Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 0 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
- 167 since Oct 15, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 27
Top committers
- skyzh: 71% of commits
- Connor1996: 21% of commits
- jhsong233: 1% of commits
- chasingegg: 1% of commits
- Elubrazione: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jun 7, 2025 to Jun 19, 2025: about 548 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 8, 2025 to Sep 17, 2025: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 21, 2026 to Sep 24, 2026: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 15, 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
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- tiny-llm-course (PYPI): latest 0.1.0, published Sep 6, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: skyzh/tiny-llm, deps.dev: PyPI tiny-llm-course
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- Oct 15, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
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