This document was originally written by Lin Yuan

Introduction

The aim of this document to help developers quickly understand the overall design architecture as well as code structure of the MXNet backend. It targets readers who have programming experience in C/C++ and would like to contribute to the MXNet backend. We assume that the reader has already perused the 60min Gluon Crash Course, and followed the Handwritten Digit Recognition Tutorial to completion.

This guide is not a replacement for the existing How To Implement an Operator tutorial. Rather, it aims to provide readers a comprehensive view of the backend architecture and an understanding of how the individual components are linked together. It is organized to give a complete view at different levels of detail and is not intended to dive straight into a particular area. This guide also provides further references should readers want more details on an individual component.

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