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Grain: A library for loading and transforming data for ML training.

Grain - Feeding JAX Models

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Grain is a Python library for reading and processing data for training and evaluating JAX models. It is flexible, fast and deterministic.

Grain allows to define data processing steps in a simple declarative way:

import grain

dataset = (
    grain.MapDataset.source([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10])
    .shuffle(seed=42)  # Shuffles elements globally.
    .map(lambda x: x+1)  # Maps each element.
    .batch(batch_size=2)  # Batches consecutive elements.
)

for batch in dataset:
  # Training step.

Grain is designed to work with JAX models but it does not require JAX to run and can be used with other frameworks as well.

Installation

Grain is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip install grain.

Supported platforms

Grain does not directly use GPU or TPU in its transformations, the processing within Grain will be done on the CPU by default.

	Linux	Mac	Windows
x86_64	yes	no	no
aarch64	yes	yes	n/a

Quickstart

• Basic Dataset tutorial

Citing Grain

To cite this repository:

@software{grain2023github,
  author = {Marvin Ritter and Ihor Indyk and Aayush Singh and Andrew Audibert and Anoosha Seelam and Camelia Hanes and Eric Lau and Jacek Olesiak and Jiyang Kang and Xihui Wu},
  title = {{Grain} - Feeding JAX Models},
  url = {http://github.com/google/grain},
  version = {0.2.12},
  year = {2023},
}

The version number is intended to be that from pyproject.toml, and the year corresponds to the project's open-source release.

Existing users

Grain is used by MaxText, Gemma, kauldron, maxdiffusion and multiple internal Google projects.