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PyTorch Inductor replaces Spyre’s custom compiler stack with one 7× smaller

pytorch.org by Dave Grove, Olivier Tardieu, IBM Spyre Team 16 min read Editor score 8/10

IBM moved Spyre’s torch.compile backend from a separately built stack to an Inductor backend, leaving most of Inductor unchanged and shrinking the compiler about 7×. It’s a concrete example of adapting a shared compiler to a non-GPU inference accelerator.

What: Torch-spyre moved its torch.compile backend from sendnn to PyTorch Inductor, producing a compiler roughly 7× smaller.
How: Inductor extensions lower FX graphs through LoopLevelIR to SuperDSC; proprietary DeepTools then compiles SuperDSC into Spyre instructions.
Why it matters: Spyre-specific extensions handle data movement, scratchpad allocation, tiling and work division, showing how shared compiler infrastructure can support distinct accelerators.

The Spyre Inductor backend lowers a model graph through to hardware instructions. Sketched from the article's own text.

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