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OpenJev
Summary
OpenJev is a browser‑only demo that lets you load small LLM checkpoints (e.g., MiniCPM‑5 2B, Qwen3 0.6B) onto your GPU and compare two inference paths: reading raw logits for a set of options versus prompting the model to emit a JSON with option probabilities token‑by‑token. The page reports model sizes, download times, balanced accuracy on a few benchmarks, and wall‑clock timings measured with `…
- Running LLMs in‑browser is feasible for sub‑4 B parameter models when a GPU is available.
- Directly reading logits is faster than generating JSON token‑by‑token, but both can be timed client‑side.
- Quantization (GGUF) reduces memory and may impact both quality (balanced accuracy 44‑88 %) and latency.
- No data leaves the browser; the demo relies on cached Hugging Face weights and client‑side inference.
Local inference removes server‑side latency, privacy concerns, and cost, but the trade‑off is limited model size and variable accuracy. OpenJev showcases a concrete comparison of two inference strategies that could inform UI design for decision‑support tools built on edge LLMs.
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