tinygrad/tinygrad
You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad! ❤️
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #147 among Backend repositories tracked this week, and #146 over the last 30 days; #718 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 37%).
1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 33 days ago, with 453 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 59% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a minimalist deep learning framework supporting autograd, tensor operations, and neural network training in Python.
- Offers extreme simplicity and ease of adding new hardware accelerators with minimal low-level operations required.
- Use for learning and experimenting with deep learning internals and autograd mechanics in a compact codebase.
- Use for running and fine-tuning large models like LLaMA and Stable Diffusion on various hardware backends.
- Use for developing and testing custom hardware accelerators by integrating them with a simple, extensible framework.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
tinygrad: For something between PyTorch and karpathy/micrograd. Maintained by tiny corp.
Despite tinygrad's size, it is a fully featured deep learning framework.
Due to its extreme simplicity, it is the easiest framework to add new accelerators to, with support for both inference and training. If XLA is CISC, tinygrad is RISC.
tinygrad is now beta software, we raised some money to make it good. Someday, we will tape out chips.
tinygrad can run LLaMA and Stable Diffusion!
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+414 stars over 82 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +6 on Jul 8.
Forks
4.3K+135
Open issues
169-9
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| tinygrad/tinygrad | 33.7K | +0 | 75 | 33 days ago |
| Category median | 11.1K | +2.2K | 65 | — |
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