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I built a native Vulkan training backend for 143 modern Transformer architectures — no CUDA or PyTorch required

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I've been working on something that started as the training backend for my Hierarchos architecture, but it has grown into a much broader project: https://github.com/necat101/Hierarchos-Native Hierarchos Native now includes a native Rust + Vulkan backend for training and inference across 143 canonic…

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  1. 2026-09-16 23:43 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I built a native Vulkan training backend for 143 modern Transformer architectures — no CUDA or PyTorch required

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