torch_xla 1.5 now available
torch_xla is a Python package that uses the XLA linear algebra compiler to accelerate the PyTorch deep learning framework on Cloud TPUs and Cloud TPU Pods. torch_xla aims to give PyTorch users the ability to do everything they can do on GPUs on Cloud TPUs as well while minimizing changes to the user experience. The project began with a conversation at NeurIPS 2017 and gathered momentum in 2018 when teams from Facebook and Google came together to create a proof of concept. We announced this collaboration at PTDC 2018 and made the PyTorch/XLA integration broadly available at PTDC 2019. The project already has 28 contributors, nearly 2k commits, and a repo that has been forked more than 100 times.