[airza]

Okay. Humor me. I want to write a transformer-based classifier for a project. I am accustomed to the pytorch and tensorflow libraries. What is the equivalent using C?

[adastra22]

You do know that tensorflow was written in C++ and the Python API bolted on top?

[wolvesechoes]

It could be written in mix of Cobol and APL. No one cares.

People saying "oh those Python libraries are just C/C++ libraries with Python API, every language can have them" have one problem - no other language has them (with such extensive documentation, tutorials etc.)

[adastra22]

Tensorflow has extensive documentation of its C++ interface, as that is the primary interface for the library (the Python API is a wrapper on top).

[wolvesechoes]

I hoped it was quite obvious that by "other languages" I meant "other than Python and C/C++ in which they are written".

At least sibling actually mentioned Java.

[adastra22]

Scroll up this thread and the other poster was asking if you can use pytorch and tensorflow from C. Both are C++ libraries, so accessing them from C/C++ is pretty trivial and has first-class support.

[wolvesechoes]

You should read more carefully before responding.

I said "beside Python, and C/C++ in which they are written"

You: "you can see people are using it from C".

What a surprise that library usable from Python through wrapped C API has C API!

[pjmlp]

PyTorch and Tensorflow also support C++ (naturally) and Java.

[airza]

I am. Are you suggesting that as an alternative to the python bindings i should use C to invoke the C++ ABI for tensorflow?

[adastra22]

> Okay. Humor me. I want to write a transformer-based classifier for a project. I am accustomed to the pytorch and tensorflow libraries. What is the equivalent using C?

Use C++ bindings in libtorch or tensorflow. If you actually mean C, and not C++, then you would need a shim wrapper. C++ -> C is pretty easy to do.