Initial release

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LICENSE

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README.md

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+# Introduction
+
+This is a repo is designed to hold PyTorch modules and utilities that are under active development and experimental. This repo is not designed as a long term solution or a production solution. Things placed in here are intended to be eventually moved to upstream PyTorch.
+
+# Requirements
+
+Python 3
+PyTorch 0.3 or newer
+CUDA 9
+
+# [Full Documentation](https://nvidia.github.io/apex)
+
+# Quick Start
+
+To build the extension run the following command in the root directory of this project
+```
+python setup.py install
+```
+
+To use the extension simply run
+```
+import apex
+```
+and optionally (if required for your use)
+```
+import apex._C as apex_backend
+```
+
+# What's included
+
+Current version of apex contains:
+1. Mixed precision utilities can be found [here](https://nvidia.github.io/apex/fp16_utils) examples of using mixed precision utilities can be found for the [PyTorch imagenet example](https://github.com/csarofeen/examples/tree/apex/imagenet) and the [PyTorch word language model example](https://github.com/csarofeen/examples/tree/apex/word_language_model).
+2. Parallel utilities can be found [here](https://nvidia.github.io/apex/parallel) and an example/walkthrough can be found [here](https://github.com/csarofeen/examples/tree/apex/distributed)
+  - apex/parallel/distributed.py contains a simplified implementation of PyTorch's DistributedDataParallel that's optimized for use with NCCL in single gpu / process mode
+  - apex/parallel/multiproc.py is a simple multi-process launcher that can be used on a single node/computer with multiple GPU's
+3. Reparameterization function that allows you to recursively apply reparameterization to an entire module (including children modules).
+4. An experimental and in development flexible RNN API.
+
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