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Link to dev List discussion
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Feature Shepherd
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Problem
Currently MXNet only supports Custom operators written in higher level langauges (ie. Python, Java/Scala, etc.) via the Custom Op interface: https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/versions/master/tutorials/gluon/customop.html?highlight=customop. This makes it complicated to add high performance routines written in C++ and CUDA. One solution was the MobulaOp project: https://github.com/wkcn/MobulaOP which enabled a seamless experience for loading these high performance C++ and CUDA routines built on-top of the Custom Op interface. This project was very successful and we propose to integrate the concepts and design directly into MXNet in this project. But in this project we will implement a CustomOp and dynamic library loader into the MXNet engine, enabling custom high performance ops to be leveraged from all language bindings and without the overhead of the engine using callbacks at runtime.
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