zcbenz

My name is Cheng and I work at Apple on machine learning. I love open source, check below the projects I created and contributed to.

You can also find me on GitHub, Twitter and LinkedIn .

Working on

• MLX- Machine learning framework.

Created

• Electron- GUI framework based on Chromium browser.
• Yue- GUI library based on native UI toolkits.
• Chie- Desktop client for large language models.
• node-mlx- Machine learning framework for Node.js.
• Compilets- TypeScript to C++ compiler.

Worked on

• Atom- Created the Electron project to power Atom editor.
• NW.js- Rewrote the project from scratch.

Contributed to

• Node.js
• V8
• Chromium
• Visual Studio Code

Small projects

Machine learning with JavaScript

• ExecuTorch.js- Run PyTorch models with JavaScript.
• LLM.js- JavaScript CLI and API for local language models with vision.
• not-a-vector-database- Node.js module for storing and searching embeddings.
• sisi- Semantic Image Search CLI.
• clip- Node.js module for the CLIP model.
• llama3.js- A JavaScript implementation of Llama 3.
• train-model-with-js- Train a simple text generation model with JavaScript.
• train-llama3-js- Train a tiny Llama3 model with parquet datasets.
• train-japanese-llama3-js- Train a Japanese language model.
• fine-tune-decoder-js- Fine-tune a decoder-only model.

Node.js modules

• untar-url- Untar remote or local .tar/.tar.gz file to local disk.
• unzip-url- Unzip a remote ZIP file to local disk.
• using-temp-dir- Create and dispose temporary dirs with using keyword.
• huggingface- A library and a CLI tool for accessing HuggingFace.
• parquet-reader- A simple library for reading parquet files.
• yackage- Utility to package Node.js apps into executables.
• asar- File format for Electron app archives.
• stanmo- Generate standalone bundles for Node.js modules.
• website-check- Utility to monitor website changes.

Node.js and Chromium

• Chrohime- GUI library based on Chromium's UI code.
• kizunapi- C++ library for creating Node-API bindings.
• build-gn- Build system for C++.
• node-with-gn- Build Node.js with GN.
• Yode- Modified Node.js runtime for GUI apps.
• chromium-source-tarball- Generate Chromium source code tarball.
• build-chromium- Scripts for building Chromium from source tarball.

C++

• llama2.cppInference Llama2 with High-Level C++.
• rcedit- Command line tool to edit resources of win32 exe.
• BPlusTree- Simple implementation of B+ Tree.

Homebridge plugins

• homebridge-mitsubishi-aircon- 三菱電機エアコン.
• homebridge-echonet-lite- Devices using ECHONET Lite.
• homebridge-website-check- Monitoring website changes.
• homebridge-dyson-robot- Getting status of Dyson robots.
• homebridge-nasnos- NASNOS CS8700.
• homebridge-nature-remo-local- Nature Remo using local APIs.

Archived

• Wey (2020)- Desktop client for Slack.
• Crossclip (2020)- Sync clipboard across platforms.
• node-pathwatcher (2016)- Node.js module for watching file changes.
• mini-breakpad-server (2014)- Breakpad crash reports collecting server.
• node-runas (2013)- Run command with admin privilege.
• node-github-releases (2013)- Node.js module for using GitHub Releases.
• Cefode (2013)- CEF with Node.js integration.
• SBBS Client (2012)- SBBS client for Windows Phone 7.