Arm Compute Library
ArmArm Compute Library is a collection of low-level machine learning and computer vision functions optimized for Arm Cortex-A and Neoverse CPUs and Mali GPUs, using NEON and OpenCL. Frameworks and runtimes link it as their Arm kernel backend. Arm develops and releases it with prebuilt binaries alongside the source.
Verified 2026-08-18 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- MIT(OSI)
- source
- public
- core-gated
- ungated
MIT license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated. GitHub reports no license because the repository follows the REUSE convention rather than carrying a root LICENSE file: REUSE.toml declares MIT throughout, LICENSES/MIT.txt holds the body, and Apache-2.0 and BSD-3-Clause texts sit beside it for vendored third-party code. All three are OSI, so the tier does not turn on which covers a given file.
- https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/blob/main/LICENSES/MIT.txt recorded 2026-08-18
LICENSES/MIT.txt holds the verbatim MIT text. The repository carries no root LICENSE file - it follows the REUSE convention, with REUSE.toml declaring MIT for the tree and Apache-2.0 and BSD-3-Clause texts beside this one for vendored third-party code - which is why the API reports no license at all.
- https://api.github.com/repos/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary recorded 2026-08-18
Repo metadata - license spdx_id None, private false, archived false, default branch main - for ARM-software/ComputeLibrary.
- https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18
README describes a collection of low-level machine learning and computer vision functions optimized for Arm Cortex-A and Neoverse CPUs and Mali GPUs, distributed as source and as prebuilt binaries, with no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-key-gated build beside it.
Adoption
2 low confidence3,181 GitHub stars, which lands in the 1K-10K stars band of the stars scale, level 2. Distributed as source and prebuilt binaries rather than through a package registry, so no download figure exists and the stars scale applies with its cap of 3.
- https://api.github.com/repos/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary recorded 2026-08-18
Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 3,181 - for ARM-software/ComputeLibrary.
Capability
3 medium confidenceBanded on the category feature matrix as performance-critical kernel and operator library. Placed two bands below the apache-tvm anchor, on a matrix that bands on how much of the model-to-hardware transformation pipeline a product performs, over how many inputs and targets.
- https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18
README still documents a collection of low-level machine learning and computer vision functions optimized for Arm Cortex-A and Neoverse CPUs and Mali GPUs, distributed as source and as prebuilt binaries.
Verified 2026-08-18