undefined | Better HN

0 pointsthomasahle1y ago0 comments

At this point I feel like I need to write a tikz library just for tensor diagrams...

0 comments

There are some libraries, but the style is so not standardized that I understand your desire to write your own.

Back in 2020 I wanted to write a library based on manim to animate the contractions, but I never came around to it (and manim back then was less well-documented than it is now).

thomasahleOP1y ago

> There are some libraries, but the style is so not standardized that I understand your desire to write your own.

Do you have some recommendations? I'm currently using tikz' graphdrawing library because it supports subgraphs. This is necessary for handling addition, functions and derivatives. However, the force-based layouting doesn't work with subgraphs, which causes a lot of trouble.

> Back in 2020 I wanted to write a library based on manim to animate the contractions, but I never came around to it (and manim back then was less well-documented than it is now).

Manim is on the TODO list :-) https://github.com/thomasahle/tensorgrad/issues/7 If you feel like writing some code, I think it could work very well with tensorgrad's step-by-step derivations.

ziofill1y ago

I don't have specific recommendations, I mostly use libraries to draw quantum computing circuits, but they're not great for tensor networks even though they share some features. Man, we think alike. Btw, I've seen you work with Patrick, we used to share an office at the IQC (we were both postdocs there), tell him I said hi! :)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 comments

ziofill1y ago

There are some libraries, but the style is so not standardized that I understand your desire to write your own.

Back in 2020 I wanted to write a library based on manim to animate the contractions, but I never came around to it (and manim back then was less well-documented than it is now).

thomasahleOP1y ago

> There are some libraries, but the style is so not standardized that I understand your desire to write your own.

> Back in 2020 I wanted to write a library based on manim to animate the contractions, but I never came around to it (and manim back then was less well-documented than it is now).

Manim is on the TODO list :-) https://github.com/thomasahle/tensorgrad/issues/7 If you feel like writing some code, I think it could work very well with tensorgrad's step-by-step derivations.

ziofill1y ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse