Footer

Your go-to destination for discovering trending open-source projects and uncovering the insights that matter

Legal

  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy policy

More

  • Pricing
  • Advertise
  • onedump
  • gosnakego
  • Contact us

Social

  • X (Twitter)
  • GitHub
Trendshift owl
What they build speaks louder than words
© 2026 Trendshift, created by Julian Li with ❤️
SignalAdvertise
Trendshift
SignalAdvertise
Sign in
Trendshift owl

Discover trends that matter

SignalAdvertise
DailyWeeklyMonthlyYearly
Live mentionsTopics
RepositoriesDevelopers
InsightsStats
Bifrost
Bifrost

openai/parameter-golf

Train the smallest LM you can that fits in 16MB. Best model wins!

Visit GitHub
Python
5.2k
3.4k
50 contributors
MIT License
AchievementsView all →
FeaturedAdvertise to 180K+ monthly visitors
Bifrost

Fastest Enterprise AI Gateway for Routing, Governing, and Securing all your AI Traffic

Momentum

How fast openai/parameter-golf is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 5 – Nov 4, 2026

Stars +42 in 61 days

0123
3

Forks +18 in 61 days

012
2

Merged PRs 0 in 61 days

01

Trendshift Trendingwhere the repository ranked each day it made the top 25

Not in the Trendshift top 25 in this period

Sep 5Sep 13Sep 21Sep 29Oct 7Oct 15Oct 23Oct 31
The left and right arrow keys step from day to day; Home and End go to the first and the last

Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
DayStars gainedForks gainedMerged PRs
Sat, Sep 5, 2026+3+00
Sun, Sep 6, 2026+0+00
Mon, Sep 7, 2026+0+00
Tue, Sep 8, 2026+1+00
Wed, Sep 9, 2026+0+10
Thu, Sep 10, 2026+1+10
Fri, Sep 11, 2026+1+00
Sat, Sep 12, 2026+1+00
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+0+10
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+2+00
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+0+00
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+1+00
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+0+00
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+0+00
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+1+00
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+3+00
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+1+00
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+0+00
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+1+00
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+2+00
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+2+00
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+1+00
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+1+00
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+2+00
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+0+00
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+0+00
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+0+10
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+0+10
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+1+00
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+0+20
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+0+10
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+0+10
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+1+00
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+0+20
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+0+00
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+1+00
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+1+00
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+1+10
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+0+00
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+0+00
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+0+00
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+0+00
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+0+00
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+0+00
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+2+10
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+0+10
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+0+10
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+1+00
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+2+00
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+3+00
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+0+00
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+0+00
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+1+00
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+2+20
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+1+00
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+0+10
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+0+00
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+1+00
Total+42+180
  • 1#1 on the list
  • 7Rank that day
  • Not trending

    • Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about openai/parameter-golf, and every badge it has earned
    1. Aug 121 post

      • 5/ Combining more Paradigm puzzles METR RE-Bench Aims to evaluate whether AI agents can fully automate the work of expert AI R&D researchers. Intelligence Rising This lets present and future…

        Read full on X, posted by @raila_san

        @raila_san · x.com

    2. Aug 91 post

      • • Evaluated by compression on the FineWeb validation set, tokenizer-agnostic in bits per byte • Optimizes for lowest loss given fixed parameters, unconstrained by data, compute, or architecture •…

        Read full on X, posted by @the_osps

        @the_osps · x.com

    3. 1 month earlier
    4. Jul 51 post

      • the result: 33% less VRAM, 6% smaller artifact, zero added parameters, and stayed on par with standard attention's baseline.

        Read full on X, posted by @ddavidgaoo

        @ddavidgaoo · x.com

    5. 12 days earlier
    6. Jun 231 post

      • Which one there were 3 sizes I think? They all weren’t that good but they were a fraction of the size of models we have now. Think the lowest version of gpt-2 was like 350 million parameters or…

        Read full on X, posted by @ClownYouAllDay

        @ClownYouAllDay · x.com

    7. 1 month earlier
    8. May 121 post

      • about time. had to really push couple of nights to work on this and not to mention, to get on the leaderboard. sadly, 3-seed mean came too late for the PR (short of compute), but in any case it felt…

        Read full on X, posted by @encapsulated007

        @encapsulated007 · x.com

    You might also like

    Repositories close to openai/parameter-golf
    FeaturedAdvertise to 180K+ monthly visitors
    Bifrost

    Fastest Enterprise AI Gateway for Routing, Governing, and Securing all your AI Traffic

    cneuralnetwork/smol-kimi-k3

    Python

    A 49M-parameter Kimi K3-inspired language model trainable on one 8GB GPU

    10114

    Andyyyy64/whichllm

    Python

    Find the local LLM that actually runs and performs best on your hardware. Ranked by real, recency-aware benchmarks, not parameter count. One command, run it instantly.

    6.8k401

    isEmmanuelOlowe/llm-explorer

    TypeScript

    Diagram-first LLM architecture, memory, hardware-fit, throughput, and verified cloud-cost explorer.

    227

    RahulSChand/gpu_poor

    JavaScript

    Calculate token/s & GPU memory requirement for any LLM. Supports llama.cpp/ggml/bnb/QLoRA quantization

    1.4k82

    huggingface/smollm

    Python

    Everything about the SmolLM and SmolVLM family of models

    3.9k336

    erogol/BlaGPT

    Python

    Experimental playground for benchmarking language model (LM) architectures, layers, and tricks on smaller datasets. Designed for flexible experimentation and exploration.

    11812

    nat/openplayground

    TypeScript

    An LLM playground you can run on your laptop

    6.3k485

    qlabs-eng/slowrun

    Python

    100M tokens. Infinite compute. Lowest val loss wins.

    57998

    mlfoundations/open_lm

    Python

    A repository for research on medium sized language models.

    53877