onnx VS Pytorch

Once your model has been trained and validated using Anomalib, the next step is to prepare it for real-time implementation. This is where ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) or OpenVINO (Open Visual Inference and Neural network Optimization) comes into play.

ONNX is an open format from the Linux Foundation to represent machine learning models. It is becoming extensively adopted by the Machine Learning community and is compatible with most of the machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc. Converting a model between any of those formats and ONNX is really simple and can be done in most cases with a single command.

ONNX[0], model-as-protosbufs, continuing to gain adoption will hopefully solve this issue.

[0] https://github.com/onnx/onnx

Running inference for large models on CPU is not a new problem and fortunately there has been great development in many different optimization frameworks for speeding up matrix and tensor computations on CPU. We explored multiple optimization frameworks and methods to improve latency, namely TorchScript, BetterTransformer and ONNX.

ONNX is a format for representing machine learning models in a portable way. Additionally, ONNX models can be easily optimized and thus become smaller and faster.

I would say onnx.ai [0] provides more information about ONNX for those who aren’t working with ML/DL.

[0] https://onnx.ai

It's not clear why you thing this sub is appropriate for some third party system with a Python interface. Why don't you try their discussion group: https://github.com/onnx/onnx/discussions

This kind of indirection through standardisation is pretty common to make compatibility between different kinds of software components easier. Some other good examples are the LSP project from Microsoft and ONNX to represent machine learning models. The first provides a standard so that IDEs don't have to re-invent the weel for every programming language. The latter decouples training frameworks from inference frameworks. Going back to WSGI, you can find a pretty extensive rationale for the WSGI standard here if interested.

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

TensorFlow, developed by Google, and PyTorch, developed by Facebook, are two of the most popular frameworks for building and training complex machine learning models. TensorFlow is known for its flexibility and robust scalability, making it suitable for both research prototypes and production deployments. PyTorch is praised for its ease of use, simplicity, and dynamic computational graph that allows for more intuitive coding of complex AI models. Both frameworks support a wide range of AI models, from simple linear regression to complex deep neural networks.

> does PyTorch have a similar concept

of course https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/torch/utils/_py...

fyi should work on most 40xx[1]

[1] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/119638#issuecommen...

Sure, right here: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/torch/autograd/...

Here's the documentation: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/forward_ad_usage....

> When an input, which we call “primal”, is associated with a “direction” tensor, which we call “tangent”, the resultant new tensor object is called a “dual tensor” for its connection to dual numbers[0].

*My post explains Dot, Matrix and Element-wise multiplication in PyTorch.

In PyTorch with @, dot() or matmul():