Torch Setup

[Evelyn Normington]

Thetorch package contains data structures for multi-dimensionaltensors and defines mathematical operations over these tensors.Additionally, it provides many utilities for efficient serialization ofTensors and arbitrary types, and other useful utilities.

Creates a one-dimensional tensor of size steps whose values are evenly spaced from basestart\textbase^\textstartbasestart to baseend\textbase^\textendbaseend, inclusive, on a logarithmic scale with base base.

Returns a tensor where each row contains num_samples indices sampled from the multinomial (a stricter definition would be multivariate, refer to torch.distributions.multinomial.Multinomial for more details) probability distribution located in the corresponding row of tensor input.

Returns a namedtuple (values, indices) where values is the mode value of each row of the input tensor in the given dimension dim, i.e. a value which appears most often in that row, and indices is the index location of each mode value found.

Find the indices from the innermost dimension of sorted_sequence such that, if the corresponding values in values were inserted before the indices, when sorted, the order of the corresponding innermost dimension within sorted_sequence would be preserved.

Returns the indices of the lower triangular part of a row-by- col matrix in a 2-by-N Tensor, where the first row contains row coordinates of all indices and the second row contains column coordinates.

Computes the QR decomposition of a matrix or a batch of matrices input, and returns a namedtuple (Q, R) of tensors such that input=QR\textinput = Q Rinput=QR with QQQ being an orthogonal matrix or batch of orthogonal matrices and RRR being an upper triangular matrix or batch of upper triangular matrices.

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Hi @ToxinBiologist

Maybe you can try installing torch and cuda as explained here. If you are using Anaconda you can try running the command below

conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=11.6 -c pytorch -c nvidia

Hope it helps, best wishes

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Torch is an open-source machine learning library, a scientific computing framework, and a scripting language based on Lua.[3] It provides LuaJIT interfaces to deep learning algorithms implemented in C. It was created by the Idiap Research Institute at EPFL. Torch development moved in 2017 to PyTorch, a port of the library to Python.[4][5][better source needed]

The torch package also simplifies object-oriented programming and serialization by providing various convenience functions which are used throughout its packages. The torch.class(classname, parentclass) function can be used to create object factories (classes). When the constructor is called, torch initializes and sets a Lua table with the user-defined metatable, which makes the table an object.

Objects created with the torch factory can also be serialized, as long as they do not contain references to objects that cannot be serialized, such as Lua coroutines, and Lua userdata. However, userdata can be serialized if it is wrapped by a table (or metatable) that provides read() and write() methods.

The nn package is used for building neural networks. It is divided into modular objects that share a common Module interface. Modules have a forward() and backward() method that allow them to feedforward and backpropagate, respectively. Modules can be joined using module composites, like Sequential, Parallel and Concat to create complex task-tailored graphs. Simpler modules like Linear, Tanh and Max make up the basic component modules. This modular interface provides first-order automatic gradient differentiation. What follows is an example use-case for building a multilayer perceptron using Modules:

Loss functions are implemented as sub-classes of Criterion, which has a similar interface to Module. It also has forward() and backward() methods for computing the loss and backpropagating gradients, respectively. Criteria are helpful to train neural network on classical tasks. Common criteria are the mean squared error criterion implemented in MSECriterion and the cross-entropy criterion implemented in ClassNLLCriterion. What follows is an example of a Lua function that can be iteratively called to train an mlp Module on input Tensor x, target Tensor y with a scalar learningRate:

It also has StochasticGradient class for training a neural network using stochastic gradient descent, although the optim package provides much more options in this respect, like momentum and weight decay regularization.

Many packages other than the above official packages are used with Torch. These are listed in the torch cheatsheet.[6] These extra packages provide a wide range of utilities such as parallelism, asynchronous input/output, image processing, and so on. They can be installed with LuaRocks, the Lua package manager which is also included with the Torch distribution.

Torch is used by the Facebook AI Research Group,[7] IBM,[8] Yandex[9] and the Idiap Research Institute.[10] Torch has been extended for use on Android[11][better source needed] and iOS.[12][better source needed] It has been used to build hardware implementations for data flows like those found in neural networks.[13]

I am using rules_nixpkgs, to try and install a number of Torch related packages and make them available to my Bazel build environment. Specifically, I would like all of them to depend on torch-bin, rather than torch, since this actually has CUDA support.

I need to torch.compile a function but it cannot be done because an inner function uses complex valued tensors, which are not supported by torch.compile. However, the outputs of this problematic function are floats, so the problem could be solved if I could do something like @torch.compile.ignore to this function.

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