Humming
inclusionAI (Ant Group)Humming is a lightweight, JIT-compiled GEMM kernel library for quantized inference, supporting dense and MoE GEMM across FP16/BF16/FP8/FP4/INT8/INT4 activation and weight-type combinations on NVIDIA GPUs from Turing onward.
Verified 2026-09-02 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- public
- core-gated
- ungated
Apache-2.0 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.
- https://github.com/inclusionAI/humming/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-02
LICENSE body carries the verbatim Apache License 2.0 text under an Ant Group / inclusionAI copyright header.
- https://api.github.com/repos/inclusionAI/humming recorded 2026-09-02
Repo metadata for humming's canonical repository - private false, archived false, fork false.
- https://github.com/inclusionAI/humming/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-02
README describes Humming as a high-performance, lightweight, JIT-compiled GEMM kernel library for quantized inference, supporting dense and MoE GEMM across a wide activation/weight type matrix, with no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside the published source.
Adoption
1 low confidence219 GitHub stars, which lands in the <1K stars band of the stars scale, level 1. Humming has no registry package and is built from source, so no download count exists and the stars scale applies.
- https://api.github.com/repos/inclusionAI/humming recorded 2026-09-02
Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 219 - for inclusionAI/humming.
Capability
3 medium confidenceBanded on the category feature matrix as one optimization family, applied broadly - the breadth of dtype and hardware coverage puts it beside cutlass and onednn rather than a single-purpose kernel. Placed two bands below the apache-tvm anchor.
- https://github.com/inclusionAI/humming/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-02
README describes Humming as a high-performance, lightweight, JIT-compiled GEMM kernel library for quantized inference, supporting dense and MoE GEMM across a wide activation/weight type matrix, with no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside the published source.
Verified 2026-09-02