C++ ML Libraries ML Frameworks

C++ machine learning libraries and frameworks for building ML models natively in C++. Does NOT include ML applications built in C++, competition solutions, or language bindings to other ML frameworks.

There are 114 c++ ml libraries frameworks tracked. 4 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is davisking/dlib at 81/100 with 14,366 stars. 5 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	davisking/dlib A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis...	81	Verified	14,366	C++
2	mlpack/mlpack mlpack: a fast, header-only C++ machine learning library	71	Verified	5,611	C++
3	apache/singa a distributed deep learning platform	71	Verified	3,587	C++
4	hosseinmoein/DataFrame C++ DataFrame for statistical, financial, and ML analysis in modern C++	70	Verified	2,936	C++
5	ZigRazor/CXXGraph Header-Only C++ Library for Graph Representation and Algorithms	64	Established	683	C++
6	sradc/SmallPebble A minimalist deep learning library written from scratch in Python	55	Established	132	Python
7	mlpack/ensmallen A header-only C++ library for numerical optimization --	52	Established	805	C++
8	stillwater-sc/universal Large collection of number systems providing custom arithmetic for...	52	Established	488	C++
9	AXERA-TECH/ax-samples Samples code for world class Artificial Intelligence SoCs for computer...	51	Established	283	CMake
10	microsoft/CNTK Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), an open source deep-learning toolkit	51	Established	17,610	C++
11	BVLC/caffe Caffe: a fast open framework for deep learning.	51	Established	34,770	C++
12	neoml-lib/neoml Machine learning framework for both deep learning and traditional algorithms	48	Emerging	797	C++
13	gegelati/gegelati Generic Evolvable Graphs for Efficient Learning of Artificial Tangled...	47	Emerging	47	C++
14	jaywyawhare/C-ML Machine learning framework written in C.	45	Emerging	71	C
15	majianjia/nnom A higher-level Neural Network library for microcontrollers.	44	Emerging	1,141	C
16	jubatus/jubatus Framework and Library for Distributed Online Machine Learning	44	Emerging	709	C++
17	oreilly-japan/deep-learning-from-scratch-3 『ゼロから作る Deep Learning ❸』(O'Reilly Japan, 2020)	44	Emerging	854	Python
18	yechengxi/LightNet Efficient, transparent deep learning in hundreds of lines of code.	43	Emerging	272	MATLAB
19	jingweizhanghuai/Morn Morn是一个C语言的基础工具和基础算法库，包括数据结构、图像处理、音频处理、机器学习等，具有简单、通用、高效的特点。	42	Emerging	347	C
20	coin-or/Gravity Mathematical Modeling for Optimization and Machine Learning	41	Emerging	156	C++
21	FidoProject/Fido A lightweight C++ machine learning library for embedded electronics and robotics.	41	Emerging	461	C++
22	novak-99/MLPP A library created to revitalize C++ as a machine learning front end. Per...	41	Emerging	1,107	C++
23	Skoltech-CHR/DeepField Machine learning framework for reservoir simulation	40	Emerging	127	C++
24	Kolkir/mlcpp Set of examples of ML approaches implemented in C++	40	Emerging	294	C++
25	DiffSharp/DiffSharp DiffSharp: Differentiable Functional Programming	38	Emerging	612	F#
26	CMU-SPEED/SMaLLFramework SMaLL: Software for rapidly instantiating Machine Learning Libraries	38	Emerging	12	C++
27	Flowx08/artificial_intelligence My C++ deep learning framework & other machine learning algorithms	38	Emerging	88	C++
28	intel/MLSL Intel(R) Machine Learning Scaling Library is a library providing an...	38	Emerging	108	C++
29	SwuduSusuwu/SusuLib C++ libs for antiviruses + neural tissue modules (such as Assistants use) +...	38	Emerging	2	C++
30	pfnet-research/menoh Menoh: fast DNN inference library with multiple programming language support	36	Emerging	279	C++
31	jolars/libslope C++ library for Sorted L-One Penalized Estimation (SLOPE)	36	Emerging	1	C++
32	jczic/MicroMLP A micro neural network multilayer perceptron for MicroPython (used on ESP32...	36	Emerging	194	Python
33	philferriere/dlwin GPU-accelerated Deep Learning on Windows 10 native	35	Emerging	516	Python
34	sbu-fsl/kernel-ml Machine Learning Framework for Operating Systems - Brings ML to Linux kernel	35	Emerging	256	C
35	PEC-CSS/slowmokit Library which can be used for machine learning in C++.	33	Emerging	15	CMake
36	NVIDIA-AI-IOT/jetnet Easy to use neural networks for NVIDIA Jetson (and desktop too!)	33	Emerging	72	Python
37	oservo/aiFi A Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Framework...	31	Emerging	11	C
38	andreacasalino/Easy-Factor-Graph General purpose C++ library for managing discrete factor graphs	30	Emerging	37	C++
39	cloudkj/layer Neural network inference the Unix way	30	Emerging	561	Scheme
40	coding-ai/machine_learning_cpp Machine Learning C++	30	Emerging	72	Jupyter Notebook
41	CovERUshKA/ddnet-nn DDNet Neural Network	30	Emerging	12	C++
42	wangyi-fudan/wymlp tiny fast portable real-time deep neural network for regression and...	30	Emerging	52	C++
43	breuderink/epsilon Epsilon is a library with functions for machine learning and statistics...	29	Experimental	6	C
44	mivp-agent/moos-ivp-agent Model agnostic ML tooling for MOOS-IvP	28	Experimental	9	C++
45	bschulz81/robustregression a c++ library with statistical machine learning algorithms for linear and...	28	Experimental	6	C++
46	ngxson/ggml-easy Thin wrapper around GGML to make life easier	28	Experimental	44	C++
47	mosynthkey/beat_this_cpp C++ port of Beat This! (AI powered beat tracking)	27	Experimental	5	C++
48	XuhuaHuang/EmbeddedProgramming Applied modern C/C++ in calculus, discrete mathematics, robotics and machine...	27	Experimental	11	C++
49	marchete/Mokka Mokka is a minimal Inference Engine for Dense and Convolutional 2D Layer...	26	Experimental	4	C++
50	softmin/ReHLine-SVM A tiny and header-only C++ library aiming to be the fastest linear SVM solver.	26	Experimental	38	C++
51	BobMcDear/aplearn APL machine learning library	26	Experimental	17	APL
52	willayy/modularml Lightweight, transparent and modular ML Framework	26	Experimental	4	C++
53	changzhiai/IANN IANN (InterAtomic Neural Network Framework) is an equivariant interatomic...	25	Experimental	16	Python
54	makariosb/Parallel-Machine-Learning-Algorithms Parallelized versions of popular Machine Learning algorithms, written in C...	25	Experimental	3	C
55	ZFPSystems/genann Genann library port to RISC OS, a simple, fast, reliable and hackable C...	25	Experimental	5	C
56	rkuang9/FLARE A C++ neural network library for machine learning	25	Experimental	15	C++
57	mbahng/pyember ML Library from scratch with only standard libraries	24	Experimental	8	C++
58	WindowsNT/DirectMLLib A clean way to use DirectML for machine learning	24	Experimental	3	C++
59	jideoyelayo1/cpp-ml-library A library of Machine Learning Algorithms	24	Experimental	3	C++
60	haritsahm/cpp-ml-server Web Services for Machine Learning in C++	24	Experimental	3	C++
61	amirabbasasadi/RockyML ⛰️ RockyML - A High-Performance Scientific Computing Framework for...	23	Experimental	20	C++
62	harshaneo17/gekko_ml A framework to develop neural networks on CPP	23	Experimental	2	C++
63	PraneethJain/AutoVCO ML-Driven Adaptive Voltage Controlled Oscillator	23	Experimental	2	C
64	s-aguado/tfm Traballo Final do Mestrado en Computación de Altas Prestacións (High...	23	Experimental	2	C++
65	godofecht/tinyML Lightweight real-time machine learning and statistical analysis library	23	Experimental	6	C++
66	rodrigogiraoserrao/ANNAPL Artificial Neural Networks framework written in APL.	23	Experimental	6	APL
67	mgaeckler1964/gaklib utility functions for C++ with AI	22	Experimental	—	C++
68	AjayAjishaa/Contiguous 🛠️ Build your own memory allocator with Contiguous, a simple project that...	22	Experimental	—	C++
69	4byte-dev/4ml Everything 4 ML	22	Experimental	—	C++
70	PeppermintSnow/ml-in-c A machine learning library written in C for personal learning and experimentation.	22	Experimental	—	C
71	Brody234/pypearl Cool library for efficient machine learning. Started August 2024, but I...	21	Experimental	2	C++
72	avkl/twinning Data Twinning	20	Experimental	25	C++
73	jabacat/jml JABACAT-created machine learning library from scratch.	20	Experimental	5	C++
74	kst179/telegram-ml-contest Solution of the telegram ML competition 2023	20	Experimental	14	C
75	Mostafasaad1/KortexDL High-performance C++20 neural network framework powered by Intel oneAPI MKL...	19	Experimental	—	C++
76	ComNetsHH/omnetpp-ml Materials on how to use machine learning frameworks in OMNeT++	19	Experimental	39	—
77	Borisflashdev/c-learn C Learn	18	Experimental	5	C
78	JyotismoyKalita/JLinearRegression A lightweight, pure-C machine learning library for Linear Regression	18	Experimental	3	C
79	qzhao19/sgdlib A header-only C++ Library for Optimization Algorithms	18	Experimental	4	C++
80	ModelingAndAnalysisOfUncertainty/ModelingAndAnalysisOfUncertainty RCOS 23FALL Data Connoisseur	17	Experimental	5	C++
81	ejaasaari/mlann A Multilabel Classification Framework for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	17	Experimental	2	C++
82	Ing-Brayan-Martinez/CPP-Algorithm-Example Repositorio para re-aprender C y C++	16	Experimental	2	C++
83	Yussufkadir/ML_algo_implementations Hobby repo where I aim to refresh cpp and implement memory efficient ML/DL algorithms	16	Experimental	1	C++
84	XUNIK8/Machine-Learning-Algorithms-in-C-Language Rewrite some basic machine learning algorithms in C language	16	Experimental	4	C
85	samnaveenkumaroff/znn ZNN (Zero Neural Network) is a minimal neural network framework designed for...	15	Experimental	—	Shell
86	aleon1138/lowess-lib Fast LOWESS library for Python	15	Experimental	1	C++
87	dhugh100/CT CFR training and evaluation for two person setback in C	15	Experimental	1	C
88	dlee888/FJML C++ ML library	14	Experimental	9	C++
89	Pects1949/Cpp-AI-Algorithms A collection of AI/ML algorithms implemented in C++ for performance-critical...	14	Experimental	—	C++
90	fausto6791/16bit-cpu Emulate a 16-bit CPU with a pure C implementation, featuring instruction...	14	Experimental	—	C
91	OpenMachine-ai/HuggingFive HuggingFive 🖐️ is a collection of ML functions and libraries written in...	14	Experimental	9	—
92	jczic/MicroNN Micro neural network with multi-dimensional layers, multi-shaped data, fully...	14	Experimental	10	Python
93	Andrew20371160/Matrix-Library This repo contains source code for a matrix library where I implemented all...	14	Experimental	—	C++
94	marcos-venicius/ML-hello-world A hello world in Machine learning with a small ML framework with methods...	13	Experimental	8	C
95	gk646/cxstructs C++ datastructures, algorithms and utilities library	13	Experimental	6	C++
96	F33RNI/PetalFlow A pure C light-weight library for machine learning	13	Experimental	5	C
97	umashankardas/ml-kernels-c Highly optimized Stable Diffusion inference kernels written in pure C from...	13	Experimental	2	C
98	estshorter/mlflow.cpp MLflow Tracking REST API client written in C++	13	Experimental	5	C++
99	marchete/NetMokka Mokka is a minimal Inference Engine for Dense Layer Neural Networks. Written...	13	Experimental	6	C#
100	rafa-br34/BigLib A powerful C++ library containing a vast collection of algorithms and...	13	Experimental	5	C++
101	Sorzusu/Syntra A basic neural net framework with support for custom activation functions,...	13	Experimental	2	C++
102	andrewlaack/cart-elc Source code for CART-ELC.	12	Experimental	1	C++
103	FraLiturri/ML-Project Repository for Monk solver and MLP NN for ML exam.	12	Experimental	3	C++
104	KyleCr4ne/HinaLibrary 📚 The C++ Machine Learning Library	12	Experimental	3	C++
105	singul4ri7y/fang The missing DL framework for C!	12	Experimental	3	C++
106	gromdimon/stronghold Repo for staying on the edge in tech	12	Experimental	3	C++
107	Jintao-Huang/LeetCode-Cpp jintao的cpp库: leetcode, mini_stl, ml.	12	Experimental	3	C++
108	ScratchyCode/Machine-Learning Testing di algoritmi per l'apprendimento automatico.	11	Experimental	—	C
109	SilkyChickn/CoreNet Lightweighted NeuralNetwork Framework	11	Experimental	2	Java
110	Hemanthsp999/Simple-Linear-Regression-C-Library This C library provides efficient implementations of linear regression...	11	Experimental	—	C
111	HanielUlises/Machine-Learning-Cpp Some machine learning implementations with C++	11	Experimental	—	C++
112	ThePyLord/mlcpp Custom C++ ML library for Apple Metal-based systems	11	Experimental	—	C++
113	giocip/ARDUINO_num7 num7 ISO C++14 Standard 32-BIT LIBRARY, ARBITRARY-PRECISION GENERAL PURPOSE...	11	Experimental	—	C++
114	ZhiyuZhangA/Cortex-plus-plus Cortex++ is a light weight deep learning framework made in C++	10	Experimental	1	C++

Comparisons in this category

mlpack and neoml (71 vs 48) mlpack and C-ML (71 vs 45)