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Infrastructure / Compilers & Model Optimization

Core ML Tools

Apple

Core ML Tools converts trained models from PyTorch and TensorFlow, and from non-neural libraries such as scikit-learn, XGBoost and LibSVM, into Apple's Core ML format. Beyond conversion it reads, writes and optimizes Core ML models, applying quantization, palettization and pruning, and verifies conversions by running predictions on macOS.

Verified 2026-08-18 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
BSD-3-Clause(OSI)
source
public
core-gated
ungated

BSD-3-Clause 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.

Adoption

4 high confidence
4.0

2,878,300 PyPI downloads of `coremltools` in the trailing 30 days, which lands in the 1M-10M band of the software usage scale, level 4.

Capability

4 medium confidence
4.0

Banded on the category feature matrix as full compilation narrowed to one vendor's targets. Placed one band 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/apple/coremltools/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

    README still documents conversion of models from TensorFlow 1.x and 2.x, PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost and LibSVM into the Core ML format, plus reading, writing and optimizing Core ML models and verifying conversions by predicting on macOS.

Verified 2026-08-18