Compiling Python Code

glow
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I’m new to glow and am trying to understand exactly what it does and how it can be used.

From reading the paper I get the impression that normal pytorch code can be compiled an optimized, but from what I see, the closest thing to this is the torch_glow library. Is this the case or have I missed something?

Thanks.

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Hi @kempj, Glow has multiple front ends. That is, we can load models from ONNX or Caffe2 protobufs, or through TorchScript from PyTorch (torch_glow). Or you could even write your model directly in C++ with our C++ APIs if you wanted :wink:.

torch_glow is under active development/is less mature than our ONNX and Caffe2 protobuf loaders. If you have problems with torch_glow, another path from PyTorch to Glow is to export your model to ONNX and then load into Glow.

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Hi @jfix, as per your Apr 8 comment torch_glow is under active dev. Requesting you to comment on current state of troch_glow as per current date?

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It’s definitely still under active development. It’s gotten more mature, but not sure if it’s easily buildable still. You can see the latest build instructions from a couple months ago here.