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CODING · 1 SOURCE · Hugging Face

Hugging Face launches TorchNeuron — native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium (public beta Oct 20, 2026)

TorchNeuron is a new PyTorch plugin from Hugging Face that exposes Neuron as a native PyTorch device for AWS Trainium, enabling eager execution, torch.compile and native distributed APIs (DTensor, FSDP, TP). It brings Transformers, Diffusers and other Hugging Face libraries to Trainium without Optimum Neuron-specific forks, increases out-of-the-box text-generation model compatibility (89% of top 100 vs 46% with Optimum Neuron v0.4.5), and will be available as a public beta starting Oct 20, 2026 (pip install torch-neuronx).

8.0

CODING · 1 SOURCE · InfoQ AI, ML & Data Engineering

Google adds cycle-level kernel profiling to XProf for TPU v7

Google added a Kernel Profiling suite to XProf (the OpenXLA/JAX profiler), exposing cycle-level details for custom kernels (e.g., Pallas) and sampling hardware performance counters on TPU v7 (Ironwood). The tooling shows lowered MLIR, per-unit time-aligned counter tracks, a Perf Counters view with ~16,000 raw counters, and supports periodic sampling (1µs floor) or external-triggered sub-microsecond capture; a Google demo using triple buffering reduced a matmul kernel from 125.5µs to 88µs.

6.0