Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework (TF Dev Summit '19)

TensorFlow is about innovation. In this Swift for TensorFlow session, you will learn about language-integrated automatic differentiation, and tooling optimized for your productivity.

Speakers:
Chris Lattner, Distinguished Engineer
Brennan Saeta, Software Engineer

event: TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019; re_ty: Publish; product: TensorFlow - General; fullname: Chris Lattner;

[aadimator]

I'm also super excited for Swift + Fastai course. Looking forward to your lectures there Chris.

[RuslanLagashkin]

Syntax looks to be rust-inspired. Loving it.

[OttoFazzl]

Even though it all sounds really interesting, it still at a very early stage. I suggest you follow the fastai part 2 course that will come out in June that will cover Swift and explain in much more detail how it will be useful for deep learning.

[aadimator]

Guess I have to learn Swift now. It would've been really exciting if Swift was supported officially on Windows as well. Now, I'll have to set up a Linux Machine for this. Still, excited about learning new things.

[martinlasek]

I haven't worked with neural networks but this talk was still super interesting stuff! The python interoperability 😳! The idea of the custom debugger is awesome, too! I liked it 😊!

[matthewygf]

anyone understand the part where he is simulating data parallel ? from what i understand, data parallel doing grad at the same time at other devices, i mean shouldn't that be using some sort of multi-threading and average it .... or asynchronous update ?

[lionardo]

but why swift? swift is not even platform agnostic as of now. If speed and performance is necessary you can use Julia.

[AdrianStabiszewski]

I hope they implement this also with Dart. Together with Flutter would be a perfect fit for mobile development.

[proweiqi]

Double bias is such a dumb idea. I know it's for a demo, but it's the same as one bias but higher variance.

[deep.space.]

Dev A: How do we easily get people started on TensorFlow?
Dev B: Let's add another language! It will surely make things easier!
Dev A: Just like tfjs we're supporting a popular use case?
Dev B: Nah. We are making them learn a brand new language because it has _types._

[EzekielPrellus]

Biggest engineering problem here is that "Swift for TensorFlow" is an unwieldy mouthful to pronounce. Needs a map-reduction to STF.

[proweiqi]

The language looks to be TOO verbose! I think Julia is the way to go.