r/MachineLearning - [D] Why is tensorflow so hated on and pytorch is the cool kids framework?

 By reddit - 2021-03-12

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627 votes, 261 comments. I have seen so many posts on social media about how great pytorch is and, in one latest tweet, 'boomers' use tensorflow .. …

Summary

  • [D] Why is tensorflow so hated on and pytorch is the cool kids framework?
  • [ I have seen so many posts on social media about how great pytorch is and, in one latest tweet, 'boomers' use tensorflow ...
  • It doesn't make sense to me and I see it as being incredibly powerful and widely used in research and industry.
  • I'm not sure this post will answer my question but I would like to hear your honest opinion why you use one over the other or when you choose to use one instead of the other.
  • Now that I am fluent with PyTorch, I don't want to switch back to TF2, which just became a poor clone of PyTorch...
  • Many things have already been mentioned such as incompatibilities across versions, and a mess of multiple APIs doing much the same thing and so on.

 

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  1. Machine_Learning (0.19)
  2. Backend (0.07)
  3. UX (0.04)

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