Research papers, packages and Github
Within days of release, users from the community started to implement their favorite research papers in PyTorch and release the code on Github. Open-source code is a primary and essential tool for researchers today.
Folks came together to create torchtext, torchvision and torchaudio packages to help facilitate and democratize research in different domains.
The first community package based on PyTorch came from Brandon Amos, titled Block, and helped with easier manipulation of block matrices. The Locus Lab at CMU subsequently went on to publish PyTorch packages and implementations for most of their research. The first research paper code came from Sergey Zagoruyko titled Paying more attention to attention.