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brainwires-finetune vs qlora-rs vs peft-rs
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
49
brainwires-finetune
experimentalv0.11.0
Cloud fine-tune APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Together, Fireworks, Anyscale, Bedrock, Vertex AI) + dataset pipelines for the Brainwires Agent Framework. Local LoRA/QLoRA/DoRA fine-tuning and training-from-scratch live in the sibling `rullama` workspace (`rullama-finetune`, `rullama-training`).
59
qlora-rs
experimentalv1.0.5
4-bit quantized LoRA (QLoRA) implementation with dual GGUF and Candle native export for Rust
55
peft-rs
experimentalv1.0.3
Comprehensive PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning) adapter library for Rust
Core Metrics
| brainwires-finetune | qlora-rs | peft-rs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 49 | 59 | 55 |
| Total Downloads | 13 | 631 | 1.0K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dependents | 1 | 12 | 17 |
| Releases | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Last Updated | 5d ago | 117d ago | 117d ago |
| Age | 5d | 4m | 4m |
Health Breakdown
brainwires-finetune
Maintenance
13
Quality
14
Community
6
Popularity
1
Documentation
15
qlora-rs
Maintenance
15
Quality
17
Community
9
Popularity
3
Documentation
15
peft-rs
Maintenance
15
Quality
16
Community
8
Popularity
4
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| brainwires-finetune | qlora-rs | peft-rs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.11.0 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.3 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| License | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT | MIT |
| Dependencies | 24 | 18 | 13 |
| Crate Size | 68KB | 81KB | 107KB |
| Features | 9 | 5 | 2 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2021 | 2021 |
| MSRV | 1.91 | 1.92 | 1.92 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •qlora-rs leads with a health score of 59/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •peft-rs has the most downloads (1.0K), suggesting wider adoption.
- •brainwires-finetune is pre-1.0 — API may change.