Open AI models are evolving faster than ever, but bringing them into native applications can still require model-specific conversion, preprocessing, post-processing, and runtime code.

NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect open collection of reference implementations helps to address this challenge. TensorRT Model Connect shows you how to run supported models with NVIDIA TensorRT in native C++ applications. You can use, inspect, modify, and extend the implementations. Model Connect is designed to support the open model ecosystem wherever TensorRT runs.

This post explains what NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect is and how to deploy a model from Hugging Face model ID to native C++ inference in two commands. It also covers the two API levels TensorRT Model Connect provides, how to integrate custom GPU kernels, and how the project is built to keep pace with the open model ecosystem.

Figure 1. Out-of-framework deployment bottleneck

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