Great tool, easy to learn and use.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use PyTorch to teach deep learning to my university students and professionally train and deploy models. Sometimes, it is done directly or through other libraries like Transformers from Hugging Face. PyTorch is very flexible and easy to write with a battery included. It offers a nice tradeoff between helpfulness and flexibility.
Pros
- flexibility
- Clean code, close to the algorithm.
- Fast
- Handles GPUs, multiple GPUs on a single machine, CPUs, and Mac.
- Versatile, can work efficiently on text/audio/image/tabular datasets.
Cons
- Not easy to handle TPUs.
- Surprisingly, some industry-standard building blocks are not there (e.g., cosine lr scheduler with warmup).
- Deployment requires additional things not there, for example, dynamic batching.
Return on Investment
- Fast prototyping.
- It's not platform-dependent.
- The pre-processing function is already present.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
TensorFlow, JAX and Keras

