PyTorch - AshokBhat/notes GitHub Wiki

About

• Popular Machine Learning Framework
• Free and Open source - Modified BSD license.
• Primary developer: Facebook
• Interface: Python interface (polished and primary focus), C++ frontend

Users

• Uber's Pyro probabilistic programming language software uses PyTorch as a backend

History

• Facebook operated both PyTorch and Caffe2, but models defined by the two frameworks were mutually incompatible.
• Caffe2 was merged into PyTorch at the end of March 2018.

Release cycle

• 90 day release cycle (major releases)

Partners

• Microsoft - Working to bring its strengths to PyTorch. It still updates its Cognitive Toolkit software. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/15/microsoft-allies-with-facebook-on-pytorch-onnx-ai-software.html

• Chainer - Preferred Networks is migrating from its own open-source framework Chainer to PyTorch. Source: https://syncedreview.com/2019/12/10/japanese-unicorn-preferred-networks-migrates-its-dl-platform-to-pytorch/

See also

• Frameworks: [TensorFlow]] ](/AshokBhat/notes/wiki/[[PyTorch) | ONNX