fuel-specs VS Pytorch

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Fuel Labs is the blockchain industry leader in scaling R&D and is building Fuel, the fastest modular execution layer. We're developing blockchain scaling and smart contract development tools. This includes a new blockchain-optimized high-performance virtual machine (the FuelVM) and a new Rust-based DSL (Sway) for developing safer and more efficient smart contracts.

FuelVM specifications: https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-specs

PyTorch - An open source machine learning framework. PyTorch Tutorials - Tutorials and documentation.

In this guide, we provided a comprehensive, step-by-step explanation of how to implement a simple GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model using PyTorch. We walked through the process of creating a custom dataset, building the GPT model, training it, and generating text. This hands-on implementation demonstrates the fundamental concepts behind the GPT architecture and serves as a foundation for more complex applications. By following this guide, you now have a basic understanding of how to create, train, and utilize a simple GPT model. This knowledge equips you to experiment with different configurations, larger datasets, and additional techniques to enhance the model's performance and capabilities. The principles and techniques covered here will help you apply transformer models to various NLP tasks, unlocking the potential of deep learning in natural language understanding and generation. The methodologies presented align with the advancements in transformer models introduced by Vaswani et al. (2017), emphasizing the power of self-attention mechanisms in processing sequences of data more effectively than traditional approaches (Vaswani et al., 2017). This understanding opens pathways to explore and innovate in the field of natural language processing using cutting-edge deep learning techniques (Kingma & Ba, 2015).

PyTorch is a powerful and flexible deep learning framework that offers a rich set of features for building and training neural networks.

Oddly enough, sometimes, the best way to learn is by putting forth incorrect opinions or questions. Recently, while wrestling with AI project complexities, I pondered aloud whether all Docker images with AI models would inevitably be bulky due to PyTorch dependencies. To my surprise, this sparked many helpful responses, offering insights into optimizing image sizes. Being willing to be wrong opens up avenues for rapid learning.

Tinygrad targets consumer hardware (to be precise, only Radeon 7900XTX and nothing else[1]), while ROCm does not actually provide good support for such hardware. For example, last release of hipBLASLt-6.1.1 library has deep integration with PyTorch[1], while working only on AMD Instinct hardware. And even for the professional hardware out there, the support period is ridiculous: AMD Instinct MI100 (2020) is not supported. Only 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars worth of hardware is going to the trash, yay!

And to be more precise, they still use some core libraries from ROCm stack[3], they just don't use all these fancy multi-gigabyte[4] hardware-limited rocBLAS/hipBLASlt/rocWMMA/rocRAND/etc. libraries.

[1] https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox

[2] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/119081

[3] https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/v0.9.0/tinygrad/ru...

[4] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/yum/6.1.1/main/

PyTorch (https://pytorch.org/)

torch is a package to manage tensors and dynamic neural networks in python (GitHub)

PyTorch also has some support for them, but it's quite incomplete and has many issues so that it is basically unusable. And its future development is also unclear. https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/60832

TensorFlow