Webinar: Learn to Build with GenAI Series - Get to know PyTorch!

Summary

PyTorch is an optimized tensor library for Machine Learning, particularly for Deep Learning. It is a core open source component of watsonx and IBM's AI strategy. IBM is a premier member of the PyTorch Foundation and one of the primary contributors of the PyTorch project. The project continues to evolve after the foundation has formed and many exciting things are happening. In this talk we provide an overview of deep learning, PyTorch fundamentals, and important features such as torch.compile. We also provide a tour of the many repositories in the PyTorch project and discuss how you can become a contributor.

Key speakers



Sahdev Zala, STSM, Open Source Developer, IBM

Sahdev P. Zala is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. He has been an open source developer for over a decade and currently contributes to PyTorch project. He is also a maintainer for the Kubernetes etcd project. Previously, Sahdev was a core contributor to the OpenStack project and a Technical Committee Member of the OASIS TOSCA. He has been a speaker at many KubeCons, OpenStack Summits, IBM Think conferences, various Linux Foundation conferences, All Things Open, and local open-source Meetups. Sahdev's work has been published in the Journal of Grid Computing, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies cncf.io, Container Journal, and other prestigious media.