• PyTorch gives our researchers unprecedented flexibility in designing their models and running their experiments.

Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s PyTorch are the most popular machine learning frameworks. The former has a two-year head start over PyTorch (released in 2016). TensorFlow’s popularity reportedly declined after PyTorch bursted into the scene. However, Google released a more user-friendly TensorFlow 2.0 in January 2019 to recover lost ground.

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Interest over time for TensorFlow (top) and PyTorch (bottom) in India (Credit: Google Trends)

PyTorch–a framework for deep learning that integrates with important Python add-ons like NumPy and data-science tasks that require faster GPU processing–made some recent additions:

• Enterprise support**: **After taking over the Windows 10 PyTorch library from Facebook to boost GPU-accelerated machine learning training on Windows 10’s Subsystem for Linux(WSL), Microsoft recently added enterprise support for PyTorch AI on Azure to give PyTorch users a more reliable production experience. “This new enterprise-level offering by Microsoft closes an important gap. PyTorch gives our researchers unprecedented flexibility in designing their models and running their experiments,” Jeremy Jancsary, a senior principal research scientist at Nuance, said.
• PyTorchVideois a deep learning library for video understanding unveiled by Facebook AI recently. The source code is available on GitHub. With this, Facebook aims to support researchers develop cutting-edge machine learning models and tools. These models can enhance video understanding capabilities along with providing a unified repository of reproducible and efficient video understanding components for research and production applications.
• PyTorch Profiler: In April this year, PyTorch announced its new performance debug profiler, PyTorch Profiler, along with its 1.8.1 version release. The new tool enables accurate and efficient performance analysis in large scale deep learning models.

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