huggingface/kernels
Build compute kernels and load them from the Hub.
Is huggingface/kernels beginner-friendly?
In the last 30 days, huggingface/kernels merged 6 of 11 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.
- Stars
- 781
- Forks
- 141
- Open beginner issues
- 1
- Indexed issues
- 33
- Avg merge
- 1d 10h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 57
- Dominant language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last GitHub push
- Oct 28, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 17, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
How to contribute to huggingface/kernels
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
- Pick the open beginner-friendly issue below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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kernels-common: hash_variant loads entire file into memory, causing high RSS on large .so filesOpen
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
huggingface/kernels#956 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
huggingface/kernels#949 ·
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Support multiple upstreams (make `upstream` a list)May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100
huggingface/kernels#850 ·
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Document kernels cache a bit moreMay be free again @sayakpaul claimed this 41 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
huggingface/kernels#838 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100
huggingface/kernels#757 ·
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Investigate support for TIRx (Apache TVM) kernelsMay be free again @drbh claimed this 97 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
huggingface/kernels#725 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·
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Improve how we vendor kernels that have upstreams (reduce divergence / maintenance burden)May be free again @danieldk claimed this 97 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
huggingface/kernels#721 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100
huggingface/kernels#718 · 1 comment ·
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enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
huggingface/kernels#715 · 5 comments ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100
huggingface/kernels#701 · 7 comments ·
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Support fetching for particular CUDA capabilitiesMay be free again @danieldk claimed this 118 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
huggingface/kernels#698 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
huggingface/kernels#696 · 4 comments ·
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Push security analysis reports on the Hub for kernels-community kernel reposMay be free again @sayakpaul claimed this 98 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
huggingface/kernels#657 · 1 assignee ·
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bug
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
huggingface/kernels#640 · 1 comment ·
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Source files of header only libraries aren't added to nix sandbox when added with includeMay be free again @danieldk claimed this 149 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
huggingface/kernels#440 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Metal example uses unsafe MPS encoder pattern that crashes on sequential callsMay be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
huggingface/kernels#307 ·
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kernels benchmark pulls from the old model repos and says every gpu is cpuPossibly taken @drbh claimed this 7 days ago. Openbug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
huggingface/kernels#914 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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Add `kernels describe-api` to the "use layers" cookbookPossibly taken @ariG23498 claimed this 18 days ago. Open
huggingface/kernels#906 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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kernels benchmark does not support XPUPossibly taken @drbh claimed this 124 days ago. Openbug
huggingface/kernels#669 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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tvm-ffi Metal supportPossibly taken @ved1beta claimed this 190 days ago. Open
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100
huggingface/kernels#352 ·
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