What is Torch?
Torch is a versatile scientific computing framework that prioritizes the utilization of GPU hardware to power a wide range of machine learning algorithms. With its Lua-based scripting language, Torch offers an efficient and user-friendly interface, seamlessly integrating an underlying C/CUDA implementation for optimized performance. This open-source tool, boasting 8.8K GitHub stars and 2.4K forks, has established itself as a prominent player in the Machine Learning Tools ecosystem, providing researchers and developers with a robust platform to tackle complex scientific computing challenges
Highlights
- GPU-centric design for accelerated machine learning computations
- Support for a diverse range of machine learning algorithms and techniques
- Lua-based scripting language for an intuitive and productive development experience
- Efficient C/CUDA-based implementation for high-performance computing
Features
Fast and efficient GPU support
Embeddable, with ports to iOS and Android backends
A powerful N-dimensional array
Amazing interface to C, via LuaJIT
Lots of routines for indexing, slicing,
Linear algebra routines
Numeric optimization routines
Neural network, and energy-based models