tiny-cuda-nn
dex-lang
| tiny-cuda-nn | dex-lang | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 25 | |
| 3,418 | 1,538 | |
| 2.4% | 0.5% | |
| 5.9 | 8.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | 4 days ago | |
| C++ | Haskell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
tiny-cuda-nn
-
[D] Have their been any attempts to create a programming language specifically for machine learning?
In the opposite direction from your question is a very interesting project, TinyNN all implemented as close to the metal as possible and very fast: https://github.com/NVlabs/tiny-cuda-nn
-
A CUDA-free instant NGP renderer written entirely in Python: Support real-time rendering and camera interaction and consume less than 1GB of VRAM
This repo only implemented the rendering part of the NGP but is more simple and has a lesser amount of code compared to the original (Instant-NGP and tiny-cuda-nn).
- Tiny CUDA Neural Networks: fast C++/CUDA neural network framework
- Making 3D holograms this weekend with the very “Instant” Neural Graphics Primitives by nvidia — made this volume from 100 photos taken with an old iPhone 7 Plus
- NVlabs/tiny-CUDA-nn: fast C++/CUDA neural network framework
-
Small Neural networks in Julia 5x faster than PyTorch
...a C++ library with a CUDA backend. But these high-performance building blocks might only be saturating the GPU fully if the data is large enough.
I haven't looked at implementing these things, but I imagine uf you have smaller networks and thus less data, the large building blocks may not be optimal. You may for example want to fuse some operations to reduce memory latency from repeated memory access.
In PyTorch world, there are approaches for small networks as well, there is https://github.com/NVlabs/tiny-cuda-nn - as far as I understand from the first link in the README, it makes clever use of the CUDA shared memory, which can hold all the weights of a tiny network (but not larger ones).
- [R] Instant Neural Graphics Primitives with a Multiresolution Hash Encoding (Training a NeRF takes 5 seconds!)
- Tiny CUDA Neural Networks
- Real-Time Neural Radiance Caching for Path Tracing
dex-lang
-
Thinking in an Array Language
A really nice approach to this I've seen recently is Google's research on [Dex](https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang).
- Function Composition in Programming Languages – Conor Hoekstra – CppNorth 2023 [video]
- Dex Lang: Research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family
-
[D] Have their been any attempts to create a programming language specifically for machine learning?
Dex
-
[D] PyTorch 2.0 Announcement
Have you tried Dex? https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang It is in a relatively early stage, but it is exploring some interesting parts of the design space.
- Mangle, a programming language for deductive database programming
-
Looking for languages that combine algebraic effects with parallel execution
I think [Dex](https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang) might be along the lines of what you're looking for, although its focus is on SIMD GPU-style parallelism rather than thread-level parallelism.
-
“Why I still recommend Julia”
Dex proves indexing correctness without a full dependent type system, including loops.
See: https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang/pull/969
-
Haskell for Artificial Intelligence?
In case you want to see one research direction that's combining practical machine learning and functional programming, one of the authors of JAX (and the main author of its predecessor, Autograd) is writing Dex (https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang), a functional language for array processing. The compiler itself is written in Haskell. JAX is one of the most popular libraries for doing a lot of machine learning these days, along with Tensorflow and PyTorch. You might also want to see the bug in the JAX repo about adding Haskell support, for some context: https://github.com/google/jax/issues/185
What are some alternatives?
instant-ngp - Instant neural graphics primitives: lightning fast NeRF and more
jax - Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more
blis - BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework
futhark - :boom::computer::boom: A data-parallel functional programming language
diffrax - Numerical differential equation solvers in JAX. Autodifferentiable and GPU-capable. https://docs.kidger.site/diffrax/
julia - The Julia Programming Language
juliaup - Julia installer and version multiplexer
Pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
RecursiveFactorization
hasktorch - Tensors and neural networks in Haskell
RecursiveFactorization.jl
CIPs