L88 – A Local RAG System on 8GB VRAM (Need Architecture Feedback)
Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a project called L88 — a local RAG system that I initially focused on UI/UX for, so the retrieval and model architecture still need proper refinement. Repo: https://github.com/Hundred-Trillion/L88-Full I’m running this on 8GB VRAM and a strong CPU (128GB RAM). Embeddings and preprocessing run on CPU, and the main model runs on GPU. One limitation I ran into is that my evaluator and generator LLM ended up being the same model due to compute constraints, which defeats the purpose of evaluation. I’d really appreciate feedback on:…
L88 – A Local RAG System on 8GB VRAM (Need Architecture Feedback) launched on February 24, 2026 with 12 votes, #935 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
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L88 is a local retrieval-augmented generation system designed to run on modest hardware, using 8GB of GPU VRAM with CPU-based embeddings and preprocessing. It is for developers interested in building RAG systems on resource-constrained machines. The project emphasizes UI/UX but acknowledges that its retrieval and model architecture require refinement, including resolving the limitation where the same model handles both evaluation and generation tasks.
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Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a project called L88 — a local RAG system that I initially focused on UI/UX for, so the retrieval and model architecture still need proper refinement. Repo: https://github.com/Hundred-Trillion/L88-Full I’m running this on 8GB VRAM and a strong CPU (128GB…
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