Fondant

Large-scale data processing made easy and reusable
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🍫 Fondant is an open-source framework that aims to simplify and speed up large-scale data processing by making containerized components reusable across pipelines and execution environments and shareable within the community.

It offers:

• 🔧 Plug ‘n’ play composable pipelines for creating datasets for
  • AI image generation model fine-tuning (Stable Diffusion, ControlNet)
  • Large language model fine-tuning (LLaMA, Falcon)
  • Code generation model fine-tuning (StarCoder)
• 🧱 Library of off-the-shelf reusable components for
  • Extracting data from public sources such as Common Crawl, LAION, ...
  • Filtering on
    • Content, e.g. language, visual style, topic, format, aesthetics, etc.
    • Context, e.g. copyright license, origin
    • Metadata
  • Removal of unwanted data such as toxic, NSFW or generated content
  • Removal of unwanted data patterns such as societal bias
  • Transforming data (resizing, cropping, reformatting, …)
  • Tuning the data for model performance (normalization, deduplication, …)
  • Enriching data (captioning, metadata generation, synthetics, …)
  • Transparency, auditability, compliance
• 📖 🖼️ 🎞️ ♾️ Out of the box multimodal capabilities: text, images, video, etc.
• 🐍 Standardized, Python/Pandas-based way of creating custom components
• 🏭 Production-ready, scalable deployment
• ☁️ Multi-cloud integrations

🪤 Why Fondant?

In the age of Foundation Models, control over your data is key and building pipelines for large-scale data processing is costly, especially when they require advanced machine learning-based operations. This need not be the case, however, if processing components would be reusable and exchangeable and pipelines were easily composable. Realizing this is the main vision behind Fondant.

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