Hugging Face's logo

Kernels documentation

Kernels

Hugging Face's logo
Join the Hugging Face community

and get access to the augmented documentation experience

to get started

Kernels

kernel-builder logo

The Kernel Hub allows Python libraries and applications to load compute kernels directly from the Hub. To support this kind of dynamic loading, Hub kernels differ from traditional Python kernel packages in that they are made to be:

  • Portable: a kernel can be loaded from paths outside PYTHONPATH.
  • Unique: multiple versions of the same kernel can be loaded in the same Python process.
  • Compatible: kernels must support all recent versions of Python and the different PyTorch build configurations (various CUDA versions and C++ ABIs). Furthermore, older C library versions must be supported.

You can search for kernels on the Hub.

< > Update on GitHub

Installation→