einops VS extending-jax

Thanks for the pointer. I can believe that a language that looks so different will find that different patterns and primitives are natural for it.

My experience from writing a lot of array-based code in NumPy/Matlab is that broadcasting absolutely has made it easier to write my code in those ecosystems. Axes of length 1 have often been in the right places already, or have been easy to insert. It's of course possible to create a big mess in any language; it seems likely that the NumPy code you saw could have been neater too.

In machine learning there can be many array dimensions floating around: batch-dims, sequence and/or channel-dims, weight matrices, and so on. It can be necessary to expand two or more dimensions, and/or line up dimensions quite carefully. Einops[1] has emerged from that community as a tool to succinctly express many operations that involve lots of array dimensions. You're likely to bump into more and more people who've used it, and again it seems there's some overlap with what Rank does. (And again, you'll see uses of Einops in the wild that are unnecessarily convoluted.)

[1] https://einops.rocks/ -- It works with all of the existing major array-based frameworks for Python (NumPy/PyTorch/Jax/etc), and the emerging array API standard for Python.

this is definitely what you're looking for: https://github.com/arogozhnikov/einops

Einops all the things! https://einops.rocks/

It depends on what are their main purposes. I know some figures who have done an amazing job in this field but never because of publications, e.g. https://github.com/lucidrains and https://github.com/rwightman, https://einops.rocks/

On tsalib's warp: this is very similar to einops. I think it might even be slightly more general. However, I'm honestly not sure to what extent tsalib is still maintained, as it looks like the most recent commit was about two years ago. (Which is a shame.)

Also see Einops: https://github.com/arogozhnikov/einops, which uses a einsum-like notation for various tensor operations used in deep learning.

https://einops.rocks/pytorch-examples.html shows how it can be used to implement various neural network architectures in a more simplified manor.

This combined with something like einops [1] ( intuitive reshaping library) can be a huge time saver.

[1] https://github.com/arogozhnikov/einops

einops: just look at the pretty visual GIF and be amazed

You can check out this or this for more info. I think it is safe to assume that it is less stable than PyTorch - some other commenters have spoken about running into trouble with XLA in certain corner cases, but I have not experienced this so I can't speak to it.