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Soumith Chintala: PyTorch

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Itorch: A 10-Dimensional Array as a Programmable Object

Yomlaken built a lot of frameworks in the 80s and 90s that were foundations for some of the ideas in Itorch. The concept of tensor aliasing slash views is actually something that Yomlaken pioneered through their work on Lush and the work before. There's a bunch of stuff that they pioneered for the machine learning community, but also was invented very parallely in other communities. Their framework could export their entire model into a C++ code-generated module without any dependency on lists when stuck.

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