community/sigs/frontend/README.md

# MindSpore FrontEnd Special Interest Group (SIG)

This is the working repo for the FrontEnd Special Interest Group (SIG). This repo contains all the artifacts, materials, meeting notes and proposals regarding **basic elements** , **operators and layers**, **training interfaces**, **distributed training**,  and any other frontend programs in MindSpore. Feedbacks and contributions are welcomed.
1. **Basic Elements**: Basic data structure definitions, including Parameter, Tensor, Cell and so on.
2. **Operators and Layers**: Provide operators and functions, neural network layers, loss functions and optimizers.
3. **Training Interfaces**: Interfaces for model training, evaluating and predicting, including high-level wrapped APIs, checkpoint related APIs, callbacks and so on.
4. **Distributed Training**: Interfaces for data parallel, model parallel or auto parallel. Common communication operators are also included.

# SIG Leads

* Jin Xiaoxian (Huawei)

# Logistics

* SIG leads will drive the meeting.
* Meeting announcement will be posted on our gitee channel: https://gitee.com/mindspore/community/tree/master/sigs/frontend
* Feedbacks and topic requests are welcomed by all.

# Discussion

* Slack channel: https://app.slack.com/client/TUKCY4QDR/C011B2DSC6B?cdn_fallback=2
* Documents and artifacts: https://gitee.com/mindspore/community/tree/master/sigs/frontend

# Meeting notes

* [Saturday May 16, 2020](./meetings/001-20200516.md)
* [Friday June 5, 2020](./meetings/002-20200605.md)
* [Friday July 3, 2020](./meetings/003-20200703.md)