VTrain, a Vulkan-based resident trainer, fixes memory leak and offloads more work to GPU
Savantskie1 · reddit · 2026-09-20
The developer of VTrain, a Vulkan resident trainer that lets anyone with a modern GPU train their own model without CUDA, shipped a major update: a memory leak that caused system RAM to explode has been fixed, and substantially more of the workload now runs on the GPU. Full fixes are documented in the repo's README.
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