.NET 5.0 – New APIs

Re:.NET 5.0 – New APIs by lostmsu on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @12:14AM (#24562912)

My startup's target is actually to close the AI gap. We are re-exposing the entire TensorFlow Python API in C#: https://losttech.software/gradient.html

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Re:.NET 5.0 – New APIs by pjmlp on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @05:28AM (#24564871)

I assume you are aware of Direct.ML and its Tensorflow integration?

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2020/09/08/open-...

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Re:.NET 5.0 – New APIs by lostmsu on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:00AM (#24567896)

Yep, and it is currently many times slower than CUDA version on Nvidia. Haven't had an opportunity to compare tensorflow-rocm with it on AMD yet.

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Re:.NET 5.0 – New APIs by pjmlp on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:03AM (#24567944)

Sure, all the best for your endeavours. We need better managed language support for GPGPU.

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Re:.NET 5.0 – New APIs by ablekh on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @12:28AM (#24562980)

Thank you for chiming in. Interestingly enough, I ran across your startup not long ago, when exploring ML/AI landscape of the .NET ecosystem. Good luck with your venture. By the way, do you have plans to support other popular frameworks beyond TensorFlow? Just curious.

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Re:.NET 5.0 – New APIs by lostmsu on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @01:22AM (#24563269)

There's no plan to support any non-NN frameworks.

We might decide to add PyTorch support, if its adoption will continue to accelerate. But that won't happen for at least a year.

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Re:.NET 5.0 – New APIs by ablekh on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @01:55AM (#24563443)

Understood. I certainly didn't mean non-NN frameworks, but rather meant other popular NN ones (PyTorch, MXNet, etc.).

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