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Kornia
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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syntaxdot
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Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust
I am so happy about them releasing this. A few years ago I wrote a multi-task syntax annotator in Rust using Laurent Mazare's excellent tch-rs binding (it seems like he is also working on Candle):
https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot
However, the deployment story was always quite difficult. The PyTorch C++ API is not stable, so a particular version of tch-rs will only work with a particular PyTorch version. So, anyone wanting to use SyntaxDot always had to get exactly the right version of libtorch (and set some environment variables) to build the project.
The idea of making an abstraction over Torch and Rust ndarray (similar to Burn) crossed my mind several times, but there is only so much that I could do as a solo developer. So Candle would be a god-given if I was still working on this project.
Seeing Candle wants to make me port curated-transformers to Candle for fun:
https://github.com/explosion/curated-transformers
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Ask HN: What is the job market like, for niche languages (Nim, crystal)?
They are obviously not as good as in Python, but if you are willing to invest time, it's definitely doable. E.g. I made a multi-task transformer-based syntax annotator in Rust using the tch Torch binding:
https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot
In my current job, I do NLP with Python, Cython, and some C++. I don't think doing it in Rust was much more work. Once you are beyond the stage of implementing a small research project or toy model, most systems are going to contain a lot of custom, specialized code. You will have to do that work in any language.
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PyTorch 1.8 release with AMD ROCm support
What I like about PyTorch is that most of the functionality is actually available through the C++ API as well, which has 'beta API stability' as they call it. So, there are good bindings for some other languages as well. E.g., I have been using the Rust bindings in a larger project [1], and they have been awesome. A precursor to the project was implemented using Tensorflow, which was a world of pain.
Even things like mixed-precision training are fairly easy to do through the API.
[1] https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot
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SpaCy v3.0 Released (Python Natural Language Processing)
Huggingface fills the need for task based prediction when you have a GPU.
With model distillation, it should be possible to annotate hundreds of sentences per second on a single CPU with a library like Huggingface Transformers.
For instance, one of my distilled Dutch multi-task syntax models (UD POS, language-specific POS, lemmatization, morphology, dependency parsing) annotates 316 sentences per second with 4 threads on a Ryzen 3700X. This distilled model has virtually no loss in accuracy, compared to the finetuned XLM-RoBERTa base model.
I don't use Huggingface Transformers, but ported some of their implementations to Rust [1], but that should not make a big difference since all the heavy lifting happens in C++ in libtorch anyway.
tl;dr: it is not true that tranformers are only useful for GPU prediction. You can get high CPU prediction speeds with some tricks (distillation, length-based bucketing in batches, etc.).
[1] https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot/tree/main/syntaxdot-t...
Kornia
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[News] Kornia 0.6.6: ParametrizedLine API, load_image support for Apple Windows Developer, integration demos with Hugging Face and many more.
👉 https://github.com/kornia/kornia/releases/tag/v0.6.6
- [P] Kornia: Differential Computer Vision
- Kornia: Differential Computer Vision
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Hacker News top posts: May 10, 2022
Kornia: Differential Computer Vision\ (3 comments)
- Preprocessing for NN on GPU
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Top 5 Python libraries for Computer vision
Kornia - Kornia is a differentiable computer vision library for PyTorch. It consists of a set of routines and differentiable modules to solve generic computer vision problems. At its core, the package uses PyTorch as its main backend both for efficiency and to take advantage of the reverse-mode auto-differentiation to define and compute the gradient of complex functions.
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[D] CPU choice for machine learning server (Epyc vs. Threadripper)
Between "not being sure yet" about GPU operations in pre-processing and choosing high-end CPUs, I think you are overthinking the wrong alternative. Besides DALI, check whether you are using codecs besides nvidia/torchvision-supported jpeg and png, and if other GPU CV libraries meet your needs: torchvision kornia
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[P] Using PyTorch + NumPy? A bug that plagues thousands of open-source ML projects.
Use kornia.augmentation where this problem is solved doing the augmentations in batch outside the dataloader. https://github.com/kornia/kornia
What are some alternatives?
laserembeddings - LASER multilingual sentence embeddings as a pip package
OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library
duckling - Language, engine, and tooling for expressing, testing, and evaluating composable language rules on input strings.
Face Recognition - The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line
spaCy - 💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
projects - 🪐 End-to-end NLP workflows from prototype to production
SimpleCV - The Open Source Framework for Machine Vision
tensorflow - An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
multi-object-tracker - Multi-object trackers in Python
candle - Minimalist ML framework for Rust
gaps - A Genetic Algorithm-Based Solver for Jigsaw Puzzles :cyclone: