PyTorch 1.6 Released, Microsoft To Take Care Of The Windows Version of PyTorch

Recently, Facebook announced the availability of the latest version of PyTorch, PyTorch 1.6. The social media giant also made a massive announcement that Microsoft has expanded its participation in the PyTorch community and is taking ownership of the development and maintenance of the PyTorch to build for Windows. PyTorch is one of the most popular machine learning libraries in Python. The version 1.6 release includes several new APIs, tools for performance improvement and profiling, as well as significant updates to both distributed data-parallel (DDP) and remote procedure call (RPC) based distributed training. According to the blog post, from this release onward, features will be classified as Stable, Beta and Prototype, where Prototype features are not included as part of the binary distribution and are instead available through either building from source, using nightlies or via a compiler flag. Automatic mixed precision (AMP) training is now natively supported and is a stable feature.