Sparse Tensors
In March, we released a small package supporting sparse Tensors and in May we released CUDA support for the sparse package. The package is small and limited in functionality, and is used for implementing Sparse Embeddings and commonly used sparse paradigms in deep learning. This package is still small in scope and there's demand to expand it — if you are interested in working on expanding the sparse package, reach out to us on our Discussion Boards
Performance
Performance is always an ongoing battle, especially for PyTorch which is a dynamic framework that wants to maximize flexibility. Over the last year, we've improved performance across board, from our core Tensor library to the neural network operators, writing faster micro-optimized across board.

We've added specialized AVX and AVX2 intrinsics for Tensor operations
Wrote faster GPU kernels for frequent workloads like concatenation and Softmax (among many other things)
