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Introduction to pytorch for neuroscientists

pytorch introduction

Introduction to pytorch for neuroscientists and psychologists.

pytorch is a very useful package for nonlinear optimization, owing to its implementation of automatic differentiation and easy-to-use interface. However, almost all of the materials you can find online describing how tou se pytorch assume you're using it for deep learning or neural networks. But pytorch can do much more than that, so the goal of this introduction is to provide a gentle introduction to how to use pytorch for arbitrary optimization problems.

Requirements

This requires python 3.8 (because we use this new feature).

See requirements.txt (you can install them with pip install -r requirements.txt). You'll also need jupyter if you wish to view the notebook.

Note that pytorch is a huge package, and the way you install it will differ depending on whether you have GPUs you want to use or not. The website has more details on how to install it, if the simple pip install command above gives you trouble.