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  "id": 121255,
  "title": "Anyone using PyTorch?",
  "url": "/competitions/tensorflow2-question-answering/discussion/121255",
  "author_name": "ilovescience",
  "post_date": "2019-12-12T03:05:40.954000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 11,
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  "content": "<p>Most people are using TF1.x or TF2.0. Has anybody made a submission successfully in PyTorch?\nI know there's a training kernel available, but there was no working inference to go along with it. </p>",
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      "id": 693147,
      "postDate": "2019-12-12T04:43:14.903Z",
      "content": "<p>I am using pytorch only</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I am using pytorch only",
      "votes": 2,
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          "id": 693169,
          "postDate": "2019-12-12T05:15:45.750Z",
          "content": "<p>Wow that's great. Is this based on the 0.48 TF baseline ported to PyTorch? I know there were some issues with inference with the pytorch kernel. Did you have similar issues?</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Wow that's great. Is this based on the 0.48 TF baseline ported to PyTorch? I know there were some issues with inference with the pytorch kernel. Did you have similar issues?"
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        {
          "id": 693260,
          "postDate": "2019-12-12T07:33:33.427Z",
          "content": "<p>Haha I love how you rose from 108th to 17th place! Great work!</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Haha I love how you rose from 108th to 17th place! Great work!",
          "votes": 1
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        {
          "id": 693828,
          "postDate": "2019-12-12T20:33:26.373Z",
          "content": "<p>Would you mind writing a PyTorch starter? I don't even need the score to be high, just something I can start playing around with. </p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Would you mind writing a PyTorch starter? I don't even need the score to be high, just something I can start playing around with. "
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      "id": 693098,
      "postDate": "2019-12-12T03:05:40.953Z",
      "content": "<p>Most people are using TF1.x or TF2.0. Has anybody made a submission successfully in PyTorch?\nI know there's a training kernel available, but there was no working inference to go along with it. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Most people are using TF1.x or TF2.0. Has anybody made a submission successfully in PyTorch?\nI know there's a training kernel available, but there was no working inference to go along with it. ",
      "votes": 2
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    {
      "id": 693306,
      "postDate": "2019-12-12T08:32:33.583Z",
      "content": "<p>PyTorch only. The only reason I see here for using TensorFlow is the monetary prize </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "PyTorch only. The only reason I see here for using TensorFlow is the monetary prize ",
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 693368,
          "postDate": "2019-12-12T10:03:12.227Z",
          "content": "<p>But how about TPUs?</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "But how about TPUs?"
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        {
          "id": 693413,
          "postDate": "2019-12-12T10:43:48.613Z",
          "content": "<p>That is a valid point. However, I prefer to lose some extra money on GCP GPU or get a higher electricity bill than to keep losing a lot of time and nerves debugging the TensorFlow code :/</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "That is a valid point. However, I prefer to lose some extra money on GCP GPU or get a higher electricity bill than to keep losing a lot of time and nerves debugging the TensorFlow code :/\n\n",
          "votes": 3
        },
        {
          "id": 693468,
          "postDate": "2019-12-12T12:00:21.857Z",
          "content": "<p>You can use TPUs with PyTorch as well - I have a pipeline which should work on TPUs (probably would need a fix here and there), but in practice training with GPUs is quick enough for now.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "You can use TPUs with PyTorch as well - I have a pipeline which should work on TPUs (probably would need a fix here and there), but in practice training with GPUs is quick enough for now.",
          "votes": 2
        },
        {
          "id": 693507,
          "postDate": "2019-12-12T13:09:40.387Z",
          "content": "<p>I think I’ll also rewrite the whole thing in PyTorch (maybe even just for the sake of experience- long time’s passed since I last time implemented any paper) but only if there’s some progress with the Metric :harold:</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "I think I’ll also rewrite the whole thing in PyTorch (maybe even just for the sake of experience- long time’s passed since I last time implemented any paper) but only if there’s some progress with the Metric :harold:",
          "votes": 2
        },
        {
          "id": 693551,
          "postDate": "2019-12-12T13:55:49.730Z",
          "content": "<p>Yeah quite annoying, its still not clear if the metric is implemented correctly</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Yeah quite annoying, its still not clear if the metric is implemented correctly",
          "votes": 4
        }
      ]
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      "id": 693107,
      "postDate": "2019-12-12T03:22:07.580Z",
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      "id": 693147,
      "author_name": "Dieter",
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      "post_date": "2019-12-12T04:43:14.903000",
      "content": "<p>I am using pytorch only</p>",
      "votes": 2,
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          "id": 693169,
          "author_name": "ilovescience",
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          "post_date": "2019-12-12T05:15:45.750000",
          "content": "<p>Wow that's great. Is this based on the 0.48 TF baseline ported to PyTorch? I know there were some issues with inference with the pytorch kernel. Did you have similar issues?</p>",
          "votes": 0,
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          "id": 693260,
          "author_name": "ilovescience",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-12-12T07:33:33.427000",
          "content": "<p>Haha I love how you rose from 108th to 17th place! Great work!</p>",
          "votes": 1,
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          "id": 693828,
          "author_name": "ilovescience",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-12-12T20:33:26.373000",
          "content": "<p>Would you mind writing a PyTorch starter? I don't even need the score to be high, just something I can start playing around with. </p>",
          "votes": 0,
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      "id": 693306,
      "author_name": "Dmytro Danevskyi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-12-12T08:32:33.583000",
      "content": "<p>PyTorch only. The only reason I see here for using TensorFlow is the monetary prize </p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 693368,
          "author_name": "Yury Kashnitsky",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-12-12T10:03:12.227000",
          "content": "<p>But how about TPUs?</p>",
          "votes": 0,
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          "id": 693413,
          "author_name": "Dmytro Danevskyi",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-12-12T10:43:48.613000",
          "content": "<p>That is a valid point. However, I prefer to lose some extra money on GCP GPU or get a higher electricity bill than to keep losing a lot of time and nerves debugging the TensorFlow code :/</p>",
          "votes": 3,
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        {
          "id": 693468,
          "author_name": "Konstantin Lopukhin",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-12-12T12:00:21.857000",
          "content": "<p>You can use TPUs with PyTorch as well - I have a pipeline which should work on TPUs (probably would need a fix here and there), but in practice training with GPUs is quick enough for now.</p>",
          "votes": 2,
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        {
          "id": 693507,
          "author_name": "Yury Kashnitsky",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-12-12T13:09:40.387000",
          "content": "<p>I think I’ll also rewrite the whole thing in PyTorch (maybe even just for the sake of experience- long time’s passed since I last time implemented any paper) but only if there’s some progress with the Metric :harold:</p>",
          "votes": 2,
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        {
          "id": 693551,
          "author_name": "Dieter",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-12-12T13:55:49.730000",
          "content": "<p>Yeah quite annoying, its still not clear if the metric is implemented correctly</p>",
          "votes": 4,
          "replies": []
        }
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      "author_name": "",
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      "post_date": "2019-12-12T03:22:07.580000",
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