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What is SymJAX ?
SymJAX is a symbolic programming version of JAX simplifying graph input/output/updates and providing additional functionalities for general machine learning and deep learning applications. From an user perspective SymJAX apparents to Theano with fast graph optimization/compilation and broad hardware support, along with Lasagne-like deep learning functionalities
Why SymJAX ?
The number of libraries topping Jax/Tensorflow/Torch is large and growing by the day. What SymJAX offers as opposed to most is an all-in-one library with diverse functionalities such as
- dozens of various datasets with clear descriptions and one line import
- versatile set of functions from ffts, linear algebraic tools, random variables, ...
- advanced signal processing tools such as multiple wavelet families (in time and frequency domain), multiple time-frequency representations, apodization windows, ...
- IO utilities to monitor/save/track specific statistics during graph execution through h5 files and numpy, simple and explicit graph saving allowing to save and load models without burden
- side utilities such as automatic batching of dataset, data splitting, cross-validation, ...
and most importantly, a SYMBOLIC/DECLARATIVE programming environment allowing CONCISE/EXPLICIT/OPTIMIZED computations.
For a deep network oriented imperative library built on JAX and with a JAX syntax check out FLAX.
Examples
import sys
import symjax as sj
import symjax.tensor as T
# create our variable to be optimized
mu = T.Variable(T.random.normal((), seed=1))
# create our cost
cost = T.exp(-(mu-1)**2)
# get the gradient, notice that it is itself a tensor that can then
# be manipulated as well
g = sj.gradients(cost, mu)
print(g)
# (Tensor: shape=(), dtype=float32)
# create the compiled function that will compute the cost and apply
# the update onto the variable
f = sj.function(outputs=cost, updates={mu:mu-0.2*g})
for i in range(10):
print(f())
# 0.008471076
# 0.008201109
# 0.007946267
# ...
Installation
Make sure to install all the needed GPU drivers (for GPU support, not mandatory) and install JAX as described in this guide.