The card catalog behind an LLM museum

What it does

rasbt/llm-architecture-gallery is the data layer behind Sebastian Raschka’s LLM Architecture Gallery. It contains a single models.yml file that stores per-model metadata—image paths, release dates, fact-sheet fields, and related links—used to render the gallery cards on the live site. In short, it is the machine-readable card catalog for a visual museum of transformer architectures.

The interesting bit

Most architecture visualizations are trapped inside blog posts or slide decks; this repo detaches the metadata from the frontend entirely. That makes the raw data diffable, scrapable, and reusable for anyone building their own model registry or research timeline without having to reverse-engineer a website.

Key highlights

• One models.yml file contains all per-model metadata used by the gallery cards
• Fields cover image paths, release dates, fact-sheet data, and related links
• The README is upfront that this is only the data export, not the full site implementation

Verdict

Worth forking if you need structured LLM metadata for a research database or timeline tool. Skip it if you are hunting for runnable code or offline visualizations—the repo is strictly data.