ABSTRACT
The torch is an R port of PyTorch, one of the two most-employed deep learning frameworks in industry and research. The ecosystem growing so quickly, I'll refrain from naming individual packages – at any time, visit the torch website1 to see a featured subset. The torch is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. If you have a compatible GPU and the necessary NVidia software installed, you can benefit from significant speedup, a speedup that will depend on the type of model trained. All examples in this book, though, have been chosen so they can be run on the CPU, without posing taxing demands on your patience.
