[leodriesch]

How does this compare to MLX? As far as I understand MLX is equivalent to PyTorch but optimized for Apple Silicon.

Is this meant for training MLX models in a distributed manner? Or what is its purpose?

[simonw]

It looks like MLX is a part of this initiative. https://github.com/apple/corenet lists "MLX examples" as one of the components being released in April.

[reader9274]

As mentioned in the "mlx_examples/open_elm": "MLX is an Apple deep learning framework similar in spirit to PyTorch, which is optimized for Apple Silicon based hardware."

[dagmx]

Just skimming the README it looks like it’s a layer above MLX. So looks like a framework around it to ease ML

[ipsum2]

It's a layer on top of PyTorch, and it has code to translate PyTorch models into MLX.

[Mandelmus]

So, is CoreNet the equivalent of Keras, whereas MLX is the Jax/PyTorch equivalent?

[hmottestad]

Sounds reasonable. Apple writes the following about MLX: "The design of MLX is inspired by frameworks like NumPy, PyTorch, Jax, and ArrayFire."

[ipsum2]

Not quite. The closest equivalent would be something like fairseq. It's config (yaml) driven.