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Caffe vs PyTorch comparison

 

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Caffe
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
21st
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PyTorch
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Caffe is 0.2%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyTorch is 1.5%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Speeds up the development process but needs to evolve more to stay relevant
In the future, they should expand text processing, for a recommendation system, or to support some other models as well — that would be great. The concept of Caffe is a little bit complex because it was developed and based in C++. They need to make it easier for a new developer, data scientist, or a new machine or deep learning engineer to understand it. You can't work with metrics and vectors as Python does. Python is a vector-oriented language, but Caffe is not. When you deal with memory in C++, you have to allocate the data you will use in memory. You have to manage everything in C++. Conversely, in Python, you don't need to do that since everything is abstract and done by Python itself. It depends on every use case or your requirement goals. Some clients will require you to use Caffe because maybe their projects are old and they want to continue with Caffe. Others are comfortable with their current situation or they are afraid of migrating to another library. From my point of view, they need to make it easier for a new developer to use it. They should incorporate Python API to make it richer, overall.
Arucy Lionel - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good backward compatible and simple to use
One of the things I really like about PyTorch is that it doesn't break with every update or deletion. That's why I switched from TensorFlow to PyTorch. I can still run the code I wrote three years ago in PyTorch on the latest version. It's very backward compatible, and it's also very simple to use. It's not overly technical, and the flow is pretty intuitive. And now that PyTorch is gaining credibility in the research space, it's becoming easier to find examples of papers that use PyTorch. This is an advantage for someone who uses PyTorch primarily.

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Pros

"Caffe has helped our company become up-to-date in the market and has helped us speed up the development process of our projects."
"It’s reliable, secure and user-friendly. It allows you to develop any AIML project efficiently. PySearch is the best option for developing any project in the AIML domain. The product is easy to install."
"I like that PyTorch actually follows the pythonic way, and I feel that it's quite easy. It's easy to find compared to others who require us to type a long paragraph of code."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"For me, the product's initial setup phase is easy...For beginners, it is fairly easy to learn."
"Its interface is the most valuable. The ability to have an interface to train machine learning models and construct them with the high-level interface, without excess busting and reconstructing the same technical elements, is very useful."
"We use PyTorch libraries, which are working well. It's very easy."
"The framework of the solution is valuable."
"It's been pretty scalable in terms of using multiple GPUs."
 

Cons

"The concept of Caffe is a little bit complex because it was developed and based in C++. They need to make it easier for a new developer, data scientist, or a new machine or deep learning engineer to understand it."
"The training of the models could be faster."
"The product has certain shortcomings in the automation of machine learning."
"The product has breakdowns when we change the versions a lot."
"I've had issues with stability when I use a lot of data and try out different combinations of modeling techniques."
"On the production side of things, having more frameworks would be helpful."
"We faced an issue with PyTorch due to version incompatibility. PyTorch has no latest version after v12.3."
"I would like to see better learning documents."
"I would like a model to be available. I think Google recently released a new version of EfficientNet. It's a really good classifier, and a PyTorch implementation would be nice."
 

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"The solution is affordable."
"PyTorch is open-sourced."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is open source."
"PyTorch is an open-source solution."
"It is free."
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Healthcare Company
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University
7%
 

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What needs improvement with PyTorch?
We faced an issue with PyTorch due to version incompatibility. PyTorch has no latest version after v12.3. We also faced a few version compatibility issues with CUDA drivers.
 

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