You can find all the accompanying code in this Github repo This is Part 1 of the PyTorch . Primer Series Topics Discussed: Tensors Basic Operations. (Inline, Tensor Indexing, Slicing) Numpy-PyTorch Bridge PyTorch-Numpy Bridge Variable Gradients What is PyTorch? It’s a based package for serving as a replacement of Numpy and to provide flexibility as a Deep Development Platform. Python Learning Why PyTorch? I encourage you to read Fast AI’s for the reason of the course’s switch to PyTorch. blog post Or simply put: Dynamic Graphs More intuitive than TF (Personal View) Tensors Tensors are similar to numpy’s ndarrays, with the addition being that Tensors can also be used on a GPU to accelerate computing. Tensors are multi dimensional Matrices. torch.Tensor(x, y) This will create a X by Y dimensional Tensor that has been instantiated with random values. To Create a 5x3 Tensor with values randomly selected from a Uniform Distribution between -1 and 1, torch.Tensor(5, 3).uniform_(-1, 1) Tensors have a size attribute that can be called to check their size print(x.size()) Operations PyTorch supports various Tensor Functions with different syntax: Consider Addition: Normal Addition y = torch.rand(5, 3)print(x + y) Getting Result in a Tensor result = torch.Tensor(5, 3)torch.add(x, y, out=result) In Line y.add_(x) Inline functions are denoted by an underscore following their name. Note: These have faster execution time (With a higher memory complexity tradeoff) All Numpy Indexing, Broadcasting and Reshaping functions are supported Note: PyTorch doesn’t support a negative hop so [::-1] will result in an error print(x[:, 1]) y = torch.randn(5, 10, 15)print(y.size())print(y.view(-1, 15).size()) Types of Tensors PyTorch supports various types of Tensors: Note: Be careful when working with different Tensor Types to avoid type errors Types supported: 32-bit (Float + Int) 64-bit (Float + Int) 16-bit (Float + Int) 8-bit (Signed + Unsigned) Numpy Bridge Converting a torch Tensor to a numpy array and vice versa is a breeze. Note: The torch Tensor and numpy array will share their underlying memory locations, and changing one will change the other. a = torch.ones(5)b = a.numpy() CUDA Tensors Moving the Tensors to GPU can be done as: torch.cuda.is_available():x = x.cuda()y = y.cuda()x + y if Autograd: automatic differentiation Central to all neural networks in PyTorch is the package. Let’s first briefly visit this, and we will then go to training our first neural network. autograd The package provides automatic differentiation for all operations on Tensors. It is a define-by-run framework, which means that your backprop is defined by how your code is run, and that every single iteration can be different. autograd Let us see this in more simple terms with some examples. Variable is the central class of the package. It wraps a Tensor, and supports nearly all of operations defined on it. Once you finish your computation you can call and have all the gradients computed automatically. autograd.Variable .backward() You can access the raw tensor through the attribute, while the gradient w.r.t. this variable is accumulated into . .data .grad Source: PyTorch Docs x_data = [1.0, 2.0, 3.0]y_data = [2.0, 4.0, 6.0] w = Variable(torch.Tensor([1.0]), requires_grad= ) True Calling the Backward function l = loss(x_val, y_val)l.backward() Common Pitfalls As explained by this by , My friend and Mentor from the Fast AI community Blog Post Radek Gradients accumulate everytime you call them, by default, be sure to call zero.gradient() to avoid that Data Types, As mentioned in the Tensor Section, PyTorch supports various Tensor types. Be sure to check for the types to avoid Type compatibility errors. Feel free to ask any questions below. Also drop us a comment on the tutorials that you’d love to read, I will try to have that up ASAP. If you want to read about Week 2 in my Self Driving Journey, here is the blog post The Next Part in the Series will discuss about Linear Regression. , connect with me on You can find me on Twitter @bhutanisanyam1 Linkedin here Subscribe to my Newsletter for a weekly curated list of Deep Learning and Computer Vision Reads
