Flashlight is a fast, flexible machine learning library written entirely in C++ by Facebook AI Research and the creators of Torch, TensorFlow, Eigen, and Deep Speech. Native support in C++ and simple extensibility make Flashlight a powerful research framework that's hackable to its core and enables fast iteration on new experimental setups and algorithms with little unopinionated and without sacrificing performance. In a single repository, Flashlight provides apps for research across multiple domains. Flashlight can be broken down into several components as described above. Each component can be incrementally built by specifying the correct build options. ...