Pytorch VS Theano

Compare Pytorch vs Theano and see what are their differences.

Pytorch

Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration (by pytorch)

Theano

Theano was a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. It is being continued as PyTensor: www.github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor (by Theano)
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Pytorch Theano
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77,783 9,852
2.4% 0.1%
10.0 5.0
1 day ago 3 months ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Pytorch

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pytorch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.

Theano

Posts with mentions or reviews of Theano. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Theano yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Pytorch and Theano you can also consider the following projects:

Flux.jl - Relax! Flux is the ML library that doesn't make you tensor

CNTK - Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), an open source deep-learning toolkit

mediapipe - Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media.

mxnet - Lightweight, Portable, Flexible Distributed/Mobile Deep Learning with Dynamic, Mutation-aware Dataflow Dep Scheduler; for Python, R, Julia, Scala, Go, Javascript and more

Apache Spark - Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

Caffe - Caffe: a fast open framework for deep learning.

flax - Flax is a neural network library for JAX that is designed for flexibility.

Keras - Deep Learning for humans

tinygrad - You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad! ❤️ [Moved to: https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad]

Caffe2

Pandas - Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

silero-models - Silero Models: pre-trained speech-to-text, text-to-speech and text-enhancement models made embarrassingly simple