PyTorch Lightning is an open-source
Python
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library that provides a high-level interface for
PyTorch
PyTorch is a machine learning framework based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, originally developed by Meta AI and now part of the Linux Foundation umbrella. It is free and open ...
, a popular
deep learning
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framework. It is a lightweight and high-performance framework that organizes PyTorch code to decouple the research from the engineering, making deep learning experiments easier to read and reproduce. It is designed to create scalable deep learning models that can easily run on distributed hardware while keeping the models hardware agnostic.
In 2019, Lightning was adopted by the
NeurIPS
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Reproducibility Challenge as a standard for submitting PyTorch code to the conference.
In 2022, the PyTorch Lightning library officially became a part of the Lightning framework, an open-source framework managed by the original creators of PyTorch Lightning.
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