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Re:Why ML Needs a New Programming Language by almostgotcaught on Friday September 05, 2025 @06:17PM (#45144301)
Triton is a backend for PyTorch. Lately it is the backend. So it's definitely double digits percentage if not over 50%.
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Re:Why ML Needs a New Programming Language by lairv on Friday September 05, 2025 @08:52PM (#45145514)
It's the backend for torch.compile, pytorch eager mode will still use cuBLAS/cuDNN/custom CUDA kernels, not sure what's the usage of torch.compile
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Re:Why ML Needs a New Programming Language by almostgotcaught on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:10PM (#45145971)
> not sure what's the usage of torch.compile

consider that at minimum both FB and OAI themselves definitely make heavy use of the Triton backend in PyTorch.

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Re:Why ML Needs a New Programming Language by cavisne on Saturday September 06, 2025 @02:37AM (#45147142)
Doesn’t triton write its own intermediate language that then compiles to PTX?
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Re:Why ML Needs a New Programming Language by almostgotcaught on Saturday September 06, 2025 @05:08AM (#45147752)
Yes and?
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Re:Why ML Needs a New Programming Language by saagarjha on Saturday September 06, 2025 @05:14AM (#45147783)
It has a fairly standard MLIR pipeline
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