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    • Distributed data loading
    • The Autodiff Cookbook
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    • Generalized convolutions in JAX
    • List of XLA compiler flags
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    • Autodidax: JAX core from scratch
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      • 263: JAX PRNG Design
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      • 4410: Omnistaging
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      • 9419: Jax and Jaxlib versioning
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      • 17111: Efficient transposition of `shard_map` (and other maps)
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jax.typing.ArrayLike

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  • ArrayLike

jax.typing.ArrayLike#

jax.typing.ArrayLike#

Type annotation for JAX array-like objects.

alias of Array | ndarray | bool | number | bool | int | float | complex

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