MLIR Is A New IR For Machine Learning That Might Become Part Of LLVM

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MLIR Is A New IR For Machine Learning That Might Become Part Of LLVM

Earlier this month the developers behind Tensorflow open-sourced MLIR as the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation. They hope this IR can become a common format between machine learning models/frameworks and as part of that it might end up becoming an LLVM sub-project...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MLIR-IR-Opened

[wizard69]

It amazes me at the breadth and flexibility of the LLVM suite.

[coder]

it also has non-goals

Had to lol at that! Whoa! A project with "non-goals"!

Seriously, most well-conceived projects have explicit limitations on their scope. They're usually called out as limitations, or otherwise excluded as part of the project's scope.

I sure hope "non-goals" isn't a new part of the lexicon, the way "learnings" seems to have become. People were learning lessons, long before "learnings" came along.

we do not intend MLIR to be a source language that end-users would themselves write kernels in

The "IR" part kinda makes that point, by itself.