Glossary term
Glossary term
Infrastructure and Serving
A high-performance open-source library for deep learning built on top of JAX. Flax provides functions for training neural networks, as well as methods for evaluating their performance.
Created for this library
An ML research team uses Flax on top of JAX to express transformer variants with explicit parameter management.
A research lab uses Flax for its language models to take advantage of pjit-based parallelism on TPU pods.
An ML engineer chooses Flax for a new project because its explicit functional design fits the team's preference for reproducibility.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License