functorch VS ml5-library

I would suggest checking https://pytorch.org/functorch/ and https://github.com/metaopt/torchopt for efficient inference and training with ensembles (e.g., t be independent actors in a multi-agent setting or multiple critics).

There were some bugs still with advanced indexing in an older release of functorch, I believe they should be fixed now though: https://github.com/pytorch/functorch/pull/862

Tangentially related but there is an effort to get some of the features of JAX into PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/functorch/

Fwiw, composable vmap and stuff like that have also been implemented in PyTorch now - see functorch :) https://github.com/pytorch/functorch

Fwiw, it’s not like Pytorch’s design prevents function transformations from being implemented. See functorch for an example of grad/vmap function transforms: https://github.com/pytorch/functorch

You may find vmap from functorch to be quite useful: https://github.com/pytorch/functorch

If you're interested in function transformations in PyTorch, try out functorch :) https://github.com/pytorch/functorch

The pytorch programming model is just really hard to adapt to an XLA-like compiler. Imperative python code doesn't translate to an ML graph compiler particularly well; Jax's API is functional, so it's easier to translate to the XLA API. By contrast, torch/xla uses "lazy tensors" that record the computation graph and compile when needed. The trouble is, if the compute graph changes from run to run, you end up recompiling a lot.

I guess in Jax you'd just only apply `jax.jit` to the parts where the compute graph is static? I'd be curious to see examples of how this works in practice. Fwiw, there's an offshoot of pytorch that is aiming to provide this sort of API (see https://github.com/pytorch/functorch and look at eager_compilation.py).

(Disclaimer: I worked on this until quite recently.)

Important APIs - ml5 for in-browser detection, face-api that uses tensorflow-node to accelerate on-server detection. VueUse for a bunch of useful component tools like the QR Code generator. Yahoo's Gifshot for creating gif files in-browser etc.

> Have we seen any creator of a deep learning library, take a similar position if not stopping any support for anyone using it for mass surveillance?

ml5.js license:

> This license gives everyone as much permission to work with this software as possible as long as they comply with the ml5.js Code of Conduct [...]

ml5.js code of conduct:

> Do not: [...] Use ml5.js to build tools of mass surveillance and prediction to repress the rights of people

https://github.com/ml5js/ml5-library/blob/main/LICENSE.md

Not sure how enforcable this is but it exists.

See also: https://ml5js.org/

"The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies."

(5) ml5.js

ML.js

I used ml5js.org , p5js.org and https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com to train the Banana images. When you create a new image project on Teachable Machine, you can output the p5js and basically use it right out of the box - I customized js, css, and html from there.

Going forward: I'll be 100% into JavaScript. You can use JavaScript in so many fields nowadays. Websites React, Mobile Apps React Native, Machine Learning TensorFlow & ML5, Desktop Applications Electron, and of course the backend Node as well. It's kind of a no-brainer. Of course, they all have specific languages that are better, but for now, JavaScript is a bit of a catch-all.

Yeah they made ml5.js for this reason: https://ml5js.org/

I do feel like Google could do better communicating all of their different tools though. Their ecosystem is large and pretty confusing - they've got so many projects going on at once that it always seems like everyone gets fed up with them before they take a second pass and make them more friendly to newcomers.

Facebook seems to have taken a much more focused approach as you can see with PyTorch Live

From other comments, a lot of JavaScript developers who want to use TensorFlow had never heard of TensorFlow.js or ml5.js!