Lophius: The Creator of Heretic Ships a Notebook-Native LM Research Workbench After Two Years Fighting Jupyter and Transformers
r/LocalLLaMA (315 upvotes / 22 comments), GitHub p-e-w/lophius·medium signal
Philipp Emanuel Weidmann (u/-p-e-w-, author of the Heretic decensoring tool) published Lophius at lophius.org, a hybrid code/GUI research system that runs inside a notebook, drawing 315 upvotes on r/LocalLLaMA. It covers model inspection, architecture analysis, config manipulation, tokenizer inspection, prompt management, inference, logits, entropy, attention scores, hidden states and chat, with intelligent GPU memory management during inference and lazy-loading of output signals you may want later. Licensed AGPL-3.0 at github.com/p-e-w/lophius (68 stars at time of check); the author says Heretic may eventually use Lophius as a backend.