MindSpore FrontEnd Special Interest Group (SIG)

This is the working repo for the FrontEnd Special Interest Group (SIG). This repo contains all the artifacts, materials, meeting notes and proposals regarding basic elements , operators and layers, training interfaces, distributed training, and any other frontend programs in MindSpore. Feedbacks and contributions are welcomed.

1. Basic Elements: Basic data structure definitions, including Parameter, Tensor, Cell and so on.
2. Operators and Layers: Provide operators and functions, neural network layers, loss functions and optimizers.
3. Training Interfaces: Interfaces for model training, evaluating and predicting, including high-level wrapped APIs, checkpoint related APIs, callbacks and so on.
4. Distributed Training: Interfaces for data parallel, model parallel or auto parallel. Common communication operators are also included.

SIG Leads

• Jin Xiaoxian (Huawei)

Logistics

• SIG leads will drive the meeting.
• Meeting announcement will be posted on our gitee channel: https://gitee.com/mindspore/community/tree/master/sigs/frontend
• Feedbacks and topic requests are welcomed by all.

Discussion

• Slack channel: https://app.slack.com/client/TUKCY4QDR/C011B2DSC6B?cdn_fallback=2
• Documents and artifacts: https://gitee.com/mindspore/community/tree/master/sigs/frontend

Meeting notes

• Saturday May 16, 2020
• Friday June 5, 2020
• Friday July 3, 2020
• Monday April 26, 2021