Are you proposing to rename Gluon? I think Pedro's opinion is about a better way to communicate what's Gluon and how it's related to MXNet.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:54 PM Davydenko, Denis <d...@amazon.com.invalid> wrote: > I support idea of putting brands of MXNet and Gluon closer together. I > agree with your argument, Mu, but MXNet is quite far away from TF place at > this time so I don’t know how well that argument is transferable from TF > position to MXNet position. > > MXNet Imperative is definitely too restrictive of a name, we can come up > with better one... MXNet-M for example, stands for MXNet-Modified (military > connotation). If naming is the only thing we need to figure out - that is a > good place to be in __ > > -- > Thanks, > Denis > > On 3/22/19, 4:48 PM, "Mu Li" <muli....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Gluon is about imperative neural network training and data loading. > ndarray > is another large imperative module. Besides, Gluon also supports > symbolic > execution after hybridizing. mxnet imperative might not be a good > name for > it. Another choice is high-level API, that's how TF talks about Keras. > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:38 PM Yuan Tang <terrytangy...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 7:29 PM Lin Yuan <apefor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > +1. > > > > > > Just to give some of my real experience: > > > 1) I advertised a recent GluonNLP blog and many responses are > "This seems > > > nice. So is Gluon a new library to replace MXNet?" > > > 2) We visited customers in a unicorn company who showed interests > in > > MXNet > > > but none of the engineers knew the relationship between > GluonNLP/GluonCV > > > and MXNet > > > 3) When integrating MXNet to Horovod and adding examples, I > received > > > comments like "What is Gluon? Is it a new library in addition to > MXNet?" > > > > > > Everyone is talking about PyTorch nowadays, but not Caffe2 anymore > > although > > > the latter is still serving as a backend component. Maybe we > should also > > > doubledown on one brand? > > > > > > Lin > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:02 PM Pedro Larroy < > > pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi dev@ > > > > > > > > We heard feedback from users that the Gluon name is confusing. > Some of > > > > them don't even know it's MXNet and it's unclear the > relationship with > > > > MXNet > > > > > > > > Would it make sense to rebrand Gluon to just MXNet or MXNet > > > > imperative? Diluting brands and names is never a good idea. > > > > > > > > There's also gluonhq which is related to JavaFX which adds to the > > > > confusion, search engine friendliness is not high as well. > > > > > > > > Pedro. > > > > > > > > > > > >
