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LiteRT.js, Google's high performance Web AI Inference
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Web developers can now run machine learning models entirely client-side, eliminating server costs and reducing latency while preserving user privacy. By shifting from JavaScript-based kernels to a native WebAssembly runtime, LiteRT.js provides up to 3x faster inference compared to previous web solutions like TensorFlow.js.
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LiteRT.js uses WebAssembly to expose a native runtime, replacing the less performant JavaScript-based kernels used by TensorFlow.js.
Developers can convert PyTorch models in a single step and apply tailored quantization to reduce model size and boost performance.
The runtime leverages hardware acceleration via XNNPACK for CPU, WebGPU for GPU, and the experimental WebNN API for NPUs to achieve up to 3x faster inference than other web runtimes.
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