# Candle ML Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Candle is a minimalist, Rust-based ML framework, designed for high-performance, serverless inference, and GPU-accelerated deployment.

Candle, developed by Hugging Face, is your solution for high-efficiency machine learning inference: It’s a minimalist ML framework written in Rust. This design eliminates the performance drag and Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) issues common with Python-centric stacks like PyTorch. Candle focuses on serverless deployment, generating lightweight binaries for fast instance creation and optimized CPU or CUDA GPU backends. It supports WebAssembly (WASM) for running models directly in the browser, demonstrating its versatility with examples like LLaMA2, Whisper, and YOLOv8. The framework has quickly gained traction, securing thousands of stars on GitHub, proving its value for production environments where speed and minimal overhead are critical.

- Official technology site: https://github.com/huggingface/candle
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 2
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [DoppelGoner: Building a Vector-Based Entity Clustering System for Federated Data](https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_eeZXANggQPM)

I'll demonstrate how I built DoppelGoner, an open-source Rust implementation that uses transformer embeddings and graph-based clustering to solve entity reconciliation across federated databases. The demo will include: Live code walkthrough of the vector similarity pipeline using BGE-small embeddings Technical deep-dive into the incremental processing architecture that enables efficient repeated runs Demonstration of the graph-based cluster consolidation using petgraph for transitive relationship discovery Performance optimization techniques for pgvector operations and parallel embedding generation Live demo of semantic service matching where I'll show how the system identifies semantically similar services even with different terminology I'll run everything live on my MacBook showing that sophisticated AI tooling can be deployed efficiently without massive compute resources.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Seattle - April Meetup — 2025-04-25 — Seattle
- Public talk page: https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_eeZXANggQPM

### [Moondream 2 in Rust](https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_q5REXdFvB8c)

An implementation of the Moondream 2 vision model in Rust made possible with Hugging Face's Candle ML framework.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Seattle - April 2024 Meetup — 2024-04-26 — Seattle
- Public talk page: https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_q5REXdFvB8c

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- [WebAssembly](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/webassembly) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/webassembly.md)) — 11 public demos