Marin (framework)
Stanford CRFMOpen framework for reproducible foundation-model development that tracks every step from raw data to final model: data curation, transformation, filtering, tokenization, training, evaluation, and experiment/mixture orchestration. Distinct from the Marin model it produces.
Stanford CRFM / Marin community framework (marin-community/marin), distinct from the Marin model artifact on HF. Contains no weights; produces the Marin 8B model. Verified 2026-08-13 via the GitHub README and the LICENSE body.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- public(marin-community/marin)
- governance
- Marin community/Stanford CRFM
- core-gated
- ungated
Fully OSI-licensed (Apache-2.0), full source public. Repo is the framework; the Marin model is a separate artifact.
- https://github.com/marin-community/marin/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-13
Apache License Version 2.0 text
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marin-community/marin/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13
README documents the whole pipeline building and installing from the published repo; no paid tier, enterprise edition or license key appears anywhere in it, so nothing is withheld from the source
Adoption
2 medium confidence1,261 GitHub stars on marin-community/marin, read from the repository API, which bands at 1K-10K stars, level 2 on the stars fallback scale. That scale caps at level 3, because a star is not a use. Adoption is concentrated around the Marin project itself rather than broad external use, and no package is published.
- https://api.github.com/repos/marin-community/marin recorded 2026-08-13
stargazers_count = 1261 for marin-community/marin
Capability
4 medium confidenceA broad end-to-end framework; what limits it is how widely it is used, not what it can do.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marin-community/marin/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13
README still describes one framework covering data curation, transformation, filtering, tokenization, pretraining, posttraining and evaluation
Verified 2026-08-13