January 09, 2025
Integrating Ascend Backend with Torchtune through PyTorch Multi-Device Support
In this blog, we will briefly introduce torchtune, the Ascend backend, and demonstrate how torchtune can be used to fine-tune models with Ascend.
January 06, 2025
High-Performance Low-Bit Operators for PyTorch
We are excited to announce the addition of embedding operators with low-bit weights (1-8 bit) and linear operators with 8-bit dynamically quantized activations and low-bit weights (1-8 bit) for Arm CPUs in TorchAO, PyTorch’s native low-precision library. These operators work seamlessly across all PyTorch surfaces, including eager, torch.compile, AOTI, and ExecuTorch, and are available to use in torchchat.
December 23, 2024
PyTorch Grows as the Dominant Open Source Framework for AI and ML: 2024 Year in Review
This past year was a monumental year for PyTorch from major releases to the flagship PyTorch Conference. We’ve seen incredible growth in contributions from more than 3,500 individuals and 3,000 organizations. It’s safe to say PyTorch has now become the dominant deep learning framework for AI/ML. PyTorch leads the model training space with a 63% adoption rate according to the recent Shaping the Future of Generative AI Report from the Linux Foundation.
December 20, 2024
Improve RAG performance with torch.compile on AWS Graviton Processors
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on vast volumes of data and use billions of parameters to support tasks like answering questions, translating languages, and completing sentences. There are a few challenges when working with LLMs such as domain knowledge gaps, factuality issues, and hallucination, which affect their reliability especially for the fields that require high levels of accuracy, such as healthcare, law, or engineering. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) provides a soluti...
December 11, 2024
torchcodec: Easy and Efficient Video Decoding for PyTorch
We are pleased to officially announce torchcodec, a library for decoding videos into PyTorch tensors. It is fast, accurate, and easy to use. When running PyTorch models on videos, torchcodec is our recommended way to turn those videos into data your model can use.
December 06, 2024
Accelerating 2D Dynamic Block Quantized Float8 GEMMs in Triton
2D block quantization for Float8 (FP8) holds the promise of improving the accuracy of Float8 quantization while also accelerating GEMM’s for both inference and training. In this blog, we showcase advances using Triton for the two main phases involved in doing block quantized Float8 GEMMs.
December 02, 2024
HadaCore: Tensor Core Accelerated Hadamard Transform Kernel
Quantization is a method for improving model inference speeds by compressing model weights and performing (faster) computation in lower precision data types. However, quantization can result in accuracy loss due to the presence of outliers.
