Poster
PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library
Adam Paszke · Sam Gross · Francisco Massa · Adam Lerer · James Bradbury · Gregory Chanan · Trevor Killeen · Zeming Lin · Natalia Gimelshein · Luca Antiga · Alban Desmaison · Andreas Kopf · Edward Yang · Zachary DeVito · Martin Raison · Alykhan Tejani · Sasank Chilamkurthy · Benoit Steiner · Lu Fang · Junjie Bai · Soumith Chintala
East Exhibition Hall B, C #182
Keywords: [ Data, Challenges, Implementations, and Software ] [ Software Toolkits ] [ Hardware and Systems ] [ Applications ]
Deep learning frameworks have often focused on either usability or speed, but not both. PyTorch is a machine learning library that shows that these two goals are in fact compatible: it was designed from first principles to support an imperative and Pythonic programming style that supports code as a model, makes debugging easy and is consistent with other popular scientific computing libraries, while remaining efficient and supporting hardware accelerators such as GPUs. In this paper, we detail the principles that drove the implementation of PyTorch and how they are reflected in its architecture. We emphasize that every aspect of PyTorch is a regular Python program under the full control of its user. We also explain how the careful and pragmatic implementation of the key components of its runtime enables them to work together to achieve compelling performance. We demonstrate the efficiency of individual subsystems, as well as the overall speed of PyTorch on several commonly used benchmarks.
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