2023 LLVM Dev Mtg - MLIR Is Not an ML Compiler, and Other Common Misconceptions

2023 LLVM Developers' Meeting
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MLIR Is Not an ML Compiler, and Other Common Misconceptions
Speaker: Alex Zinenko
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Despite the vast amount of material about the MLIR project, misconceptions regarding its scope and implementation abound. This talk will clarify such misconceptions highlighting that MLIR is not in fact a compiler, let alone a machine learning system; that dialects are intended to be mixed together despite the misleading name; and that there is fundamentally no single optimization and lowering pass pipeline. This talk addresses audience members with varying degrees of familiarity with MLIR, from neophytes who would get a better conceptual understanding of the project to advanced long-term users and contributors who could question or additionally justify some of the design choices that led to these misconceptions.
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[MoonkMinot]

Really helpful for me who is a beginner.

[billyean]

MLIR is not a ML compiler, true, maybe start from changing the toy language tutorial, maybe start with a traditional compiler building approach

[haze]

Hope the speaker is going to defend Chasiv Yar and not cowardly avoid the draft in immigration how he currently is doing.