PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library

PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library

3 Dec 2019 | Adam Paszke, Sam Gross, Francisco Massa, Adam Lerer, James Bradbury, Gregory Chanan, Trevor Killeen, Zeming Lin, Natalia Gimelshein, Luca Antiga, Alban Desmaison, Andreas Köpf, Edward Yang, Zach DeVito, Martin Raison, Alykhan Tejani, Sasank Chilamkurthy, Benoit Steiner, Lu Fang, Junjie Bai, Soumith Chintala
PyTorch is a high-performance deep learning library that combines usability and efficiency. It uses an imperative programming style, allowing code to be treated as a model, making debugging easier and consistent with other scientific computing libraries. Unlike static graph-based frameworks, PyTorch supports dynamic eager execution, enabling flexible and expressive models. It is efficient, supports GPU acceleration, and maintains performance comparable to the fastest deep learning libraries. The design of PyTorch is centered around four key principles: being Pythonic, prioritizing researchers, providing pragmatic performance, and following the "worse is better" approach. It is designed to be a first-class Python member, with a simple and consistent interface. It allows users to easily implement models, data loaders, and optimizers, and provides tools for manual control of execution to improve performance. PyTorch's success stems from its ability to balance speed and ease of use. It is built on trends in scientific computing, including array-based programming, automatic differentiation, and open-source software. It integrates with Python's ecosystem and allows for efficient interoperability with other libraries. It also provides a flexible and extensible architecture, enabling users to add custom differentiable functions and datasets. PyTorch's performance is achieved through an efficient C++ core, separate control and data flow, a custom caching tensor allocator, and multiprocessing support. It uses CUDA streams to execute operators asynchronously on the GPU, improving performance. It also implements a reference counting system to manage memory efficiently. PyTorch has been evaluated against other deep learning frameworks and has shown competitive performance. It has gained widespread adoption in the research community, with many submissions mentioning PyTorch in ICLR 2019. The library is continuously being improved to enhance speed and scalability, with future work focusing on PyTorch JIT and better support for distributed computing.PyTorch is a high-performance deep learning library that combines usability and efficiency. It uses an imperative programming style, allowing code to be treated as a model, making debugging easier and consistent with other scientific computing libraries. Unlike static graph-based frameworks, PyTorch supports dynamic eager execution, enabling flexible and expressive models. It is efficient, supports GPU acceleration, and maintains performance comparable to the fastest deep learning libraries. The design of PyTorch is centered around four key principles: being Pythonic, prioritizing researchers, providing pragmatic performance, and following the "worse is better" approach. It is designed to be a first-class Python member, with a simple and consistent interface. It allows users to easily implement models, data loaders, and optimizers, and provides tools for manual control of execution to improve performance. PyTorch's success stems from its ability to balance speed and ease of use. It is built on trends in scientific computing, including array-based programming, automatic differentiation, and open-source software. It integrates with Python's ecosystem and allows for efficient interoperability with other libraries. It also provides a flexible and extensible architecture, enabling users to add custom differentiable functions and datasets. PyTorch's performance is achieved through an efficient C++ core, separate control and data flow, a custom caching tensor allocator, and multiprocessing support. It uses CUDA streams to execute operators asynchronously on the GPU, improving performance. It also implements a reference counting system to manage memory efficiently. PyTorch has been evaluated against other deep learning frameworks and has shown competitive performance. It has gained widespread adoption in the research community, with many submissions mentioning PyTorch in ICLR 2019. The library is continuously being improved to enhance speed and scalability, with future work focusing on PyTorch JIT and better support for distributed computing.
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