Earlier this month, Facebook AI launched an open-source machine learning library called Flashlight that lets developers and researchers execute AI/ML applications seamlessly via C++ API. The library is currently available on Github.

Facebook AI said its machine learning library is intuitive and simple to use as it contains only the most basic building blocks needed for research. Further, it claimed that it takes seconds to rebuild the entire library and training machine learning pipelines.

“Deep and ML frameworks are good at what they do — but altering the internals of these frameworks has traditionally proved difficult. Finding the right code to change is time-consuming and error-prone, as low-level internals can be unintentionally obfuscated closed-source or hand-tuned for particular purposes. And once you have made changes, recompiling the framework afterwards is both time-and compute-intensive,” said Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) in its blog post.

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