Credits⚓︎

Dependencies⚓︎

Lophius stands on the shoulders of giants. It uses the following libraries:

• Hugging Face Accelerate
• Hugging Face Datasets
• Hugging Face Hub
• ipywidgets
• jupyter-bokeh
• jupyter-dark-detect
• Python-Markdown
• Matplotlib
• pandas
• Panel
• Panel Material UI
• Plotly
• PyTorch
• TorchDR
• torchvision
• tqdm
• Hugging Face Transformers

Lophius uses uv for project management, Ruff for linting and formatting, and ty for type checking.

The Lophius documentation (this website) is built using Zensical and mkdocstrings-python.

AI declaration⚓︎

Lophius was implemented with the help of a custom agentic system based on Pi. Lophius' architecture and design are 100% human-made.

The Lophius logo, intended to depict a deep-sea anglerfish of the order Lophiiformes, was created using Qwen-Image-3.0.

Citation⚓︎

If you use Lophius for your research, please cite it using the following BibTeX entry:

@misc{lophius,
  author = {Weidmann, Philipp Emanuel},
  title = {Lophius: A workbench for language model research},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://lophius.org}}
}

License⚓︎

Copyright © 2026 Philipp Emanuel Weidmann (pew@worldwidemann.com) + contributors

Lophius is Free and Open Source Software, released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or later.