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by cs702 795 days ago
That's my experience as well. PyTorch dominates the ecosystem.

Which is a shame, because JAX's approach is superior.[a]

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[a] In my experience, anytime I've have to do anything in PyTorch that isn't well supported out-of-the-box, I've quickly found myself tinkering with Triton, which usually becomes... very frustrating. Meanwhile, JAX offers decent parallelization of anything I write in plain Python, plus really nice primitives like jax.lax.while_loop, jax.lax.associative_scan, jax.lax.select, etc. And yet, I keep using PyTorch... because of the ecosystem.
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jacktang 795 days ago
The best is not always popular. JAX idea is very like Erlang programming language.
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cs702 795 days ago
> The best is not always popular.

I agree. Network effects routinely overpower better technology.

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