Transformers.jl
Torch.jl
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Transformers.jl
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Julia 1.10 Released
Flux is quite a nice lower level library:
https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl
On top of that there are many higher level libraries such as Transformers.jl
https://github.com/chengchingwen/Transformers.jl
- How is Julia Performance with GPUs (for LLMs)?
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Load a transformer model with julia
Check out Transformers.jl. It’s a library that implements transformer based models in Julia using Flux.jl. They have support for some of the huggingface transformers.
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Ask HN: Why hasn't the Deep Learning community embraced Julia yet?
https://github.com/chengchingwen/Transformers.jl but I have not had any personal experience with.
All of this is build by the community and your mileage may vary.
In my rather biased opinion the strengths of Julia are that the various ML libraries can share implementations, e.g. Pytorch and Tensorflow contain separate Numpy derivatives. One could say that you can write an ML framework in Julia, instead of writting a DSL in Python as part of your C++ ML library. As an example Julia has a GPU compiler so you can write your own layer directly in Julia and integrate it into your pipeline.
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Help on Differentiable Programming
I think you might have some luck with looking at a transformers implementation in flux, e.g: https://github.com/chengchingwen/Transformers.jl/tree/master/src/basic
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Fastai.jl: Fastai for Julia
Having tried fastai for a "serious" research project and helped (just a bit) towards FastAI.jl development, here's my take:
> motivation behind this is unclear.
Julia currently has two main DL libraries. Flux, which is somewhere between PyTorch and (tf.)Keras abstraction wise, and Knet, which is a little lower level (think just below PyTorch/around where MXNet Gluon sits). Frameworks like fastai, PyTorch Lightning and Keras demonstrate that there's a desire for higher-level, more batteries included libraries. FastAI.jl is looking to fill that gap in Julia.
> Since FastAI.jl uses Flux, and not PyTorch, functionality has to be reimplemented. FastAI.jl has vision support but no text support yet.
This is correct. That said, FastAI.jl is not and does not plan to be a copy of the Python API (hence "inspired by"). One consequence of this is that integration with other libraries is much easier, e.g. https://github.com/chengchingwen/Transformers.jl for NLP tasks.
> What is the timeline for FastAI.jl to achieve parity?
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Julia Update: Adoption Keeps Climbing; Is It a Python Challenger?
If NLP primitives are all that's keeping you from testing the waters, have a look at https://github.com/chengchingwen/Transformers.jl.
Torch.jl
- Julia 1.10 Released
- Julia 1.9: A New Era of Performance and Flexibility
- How usable is Julia for Natural Language Processing Machine learning?
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Does Julia Have a Chance to Overthrown Python in the Machine Learning Industry?
For frontends Python has quite some head-start. In principle it would be possible to write Julia frond-ends to existing ML libraries (written e.g. in C), for example https://github.com/FluxML/Torch.jl , but the advantages over Python frontends would be very limited. Only a front-to-back Julia implementation leverages most of the language advantages like composibility and flexibility.
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Julia: faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy
PyTorch for example is a C++ library with a Python user interface, see e.g. the language shares in GitHub (https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch ). There is also a Julia binding for Torch (https://github.com/FluxML/Torch.jl), but I do not know how up-to-date it is.
What are some alternatives?
Flux.jl - Relax! Flux is the ML library that doesn't make you tensor
PackageCompiler.jl - Compile your Julia Package
Pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
model-zoo - Please do not feed the models
gluon-nlp - NLP made easy
DataLoaders.jl - A parallel iterator for large machine learning datasets that don't fit into memory inspired by PyTorch's `DataLoader` class.
SciPyDiffEq.jl - Wrappers for the SciPy differential equation solvers for the SciML Scientific Machine Learning organization
Chain.jl - A Julia package for piping a value through a series of transformation expressions using a more convenient syntax than Julia's native piping functionality.
JuliaTorch - Using PyTorch in Julia Language
StatsPlots.jl - Statistical plotting recipes for Plots.jl
threads - Threads for Lua and LuaJIT. Transparent exchange of data between threads is allowed thanks to torch serialization.