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

TensorFlow · 40.8K views · 2019-03-07 · 31:22

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Chris Lattner and Brennan Saeta present Swift for TensorFlow at the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019, covering language-integrated automatic differentiation and tooling for machine learning in Swift.

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Cited as the source for Google's Swift for TensorFlow effort, later remembered as a once-hyped ML language.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2023

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Machine learning & deep learningProgramming language designCompilers, interpreters & program analysis
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albertop · 2020-05 · Recommendation

This one is very interesting and unexpected. Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework: [VIDEO]

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UncleOxidant · 2023-05 · Reference

Exactly. Lattner himself has been involved in some of this - Swift for Tensorflow comes to mind. I'm old enough to remember when Swift for Tensorflow was going to be the new ML language hotness: [LINK] and [VIDEO]

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bbrian · 2019-03 · Reference

Google are beginning to use it for Tensorflow: [VIDEO] There's a course currently running in University of San Francisco run by Fast.ai which is using Swift-Tensorflow taught by Chris Lattner for two lessons: [LINK] Not exactly what you asked, but pertinent.

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