Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) is an open ecosystem that empowers AI developers to choose the right tools as their project evolves. ONNX provides an open source format for AI models, both deep learning and traditional ML. It defines an extensible computation graph model, as well as definitions of built-in operators and standard data types. Currently we focus on the capabilities needed for inferencing (scoring).
ONNX is widely supported and can be found in many frameworks, tools, and hardware. Enabling interoperability between different frameworks and streamlining the path from research to production helps increase the speed of innovation in the AI community. We invite the community to join us and further evolve ONNX.
- Overview
- ONNX intermediate representation spec
- Versioning principles of the spec
- Operators documentation
- Operators documentation (latest release)
- Python API Overview
ONNX is a community project and the open governance model is described here. We encourage you to join the effort and contribute feedback, ideas, and code. You can participate in the Special Interest Groups and Working Groups to shape the future of ONNX.
Check out our contribution guide to get started.
If you think some operator should be added to ONNX specification, please read this document.
The schedules of the regular meetings of the Steering Committee, the working groups and the SIGs can be found here
Community Meetups are held at least once a year. Content from previous community meetups are at:
- 2020.04.09 https://wiki.lfaidata.foundation/display/DL/LF+AI+Day+-ONNX+Community+Virtual+Meetup+-+Silicon+Valley+-+April+9
- 2020.10.14 https://wiki.lfaidata.foundation/display/DL/LF+AI+Day+-+ONNX+Community+Workshop+-+October+14
- 2021.03.24 https://wiki.lfaidata.foundation/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=35160391
- 2021.10.21 https://wiki.lfaidata.foundation/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=46989689
- 2022.06.24 https://wiki.lfaidata.foundation/display/DL/ONNX+Community+Day+-+June+24
- 2023.06.28 https://wiki.lfaidata.foundation/display/DL/ONNX+Community+Day+2023+-+June+28
We encourage you to open Issues, or use Slack (If you have not joined yet, please use this link to join the group) for more real-time discussion.
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A roadmap process takes place every year. More details can be found here
ONNX released packages are published in PyPi.
pip install onnx # or pip install onnx[reference] for optional reference implementation dependenciesONNX weekly packages are published in PyPI to enable experimentation and early testing.
onnx is in the maintenance list of vcpkg, you can easily use vcpkg to build and install it.
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
./bootstrap-vcpkg.bat # For powershell
./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh # For bash
./vcpkg install onnxA binary build of ONNX is available from Conda, in conda-forge:
conda install -c conda-forge onnxBefore building from source uninstall any existing versions of onnx pip uninstall onnx.
c++17 or higher C++ compiler version is required to build ONNX from source. Still, users can specify their own CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD version for building ONNX.
If you don't have protobuf installed, ONNX will internally download and build protobuf for ONNX build.
Or, you can manually install protobuf C/C++ libraries and tools with specified version before proceeding forward. Then depending on how you installed protobuf, you need to set environment variable CMAKE_ARGS to "-DONNX_USE_PROTOBUF_SHARED_LIBS=ON" or "-DONNX_USE_PROTOBUF_SHARED_LIBS=OFF". For example, you may need to run the following command:
Linux:
export CMAKE_ARGS="-DONNX_USE_PROTOBUF_SHARED_LIBS=ON"Windows:
set CMAKE_ARGS="-DONNX_USE_PROTOBUF_SHARED_LIBS=ON"The ON/OFF depends on what kind of protobuf library you have. Shared libraries are files ending with *.dll/*.so/*.dylib. Static libraries are files ending with *.a/*.lib. This option depends on how you get your protobuf library and how it was built. And it is default OFF. You don't need to run the commands above if you'd prefer to use a static protobuf library.
If you are building ONNX from source, it is recommended that you also build Protobuf locally as a static library. The version distributed with conda-forge is a DLL, but ONNX expects it to be a static library. Building protobuf locally also lets you control the version of protobuf. The tested and recommended version is 3.21.12.
The instructions in this README assume you are using Visual Studio. It is recommended that you run all the commands from a shell started from "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019" and keep the build system generator for cmake (e.g., cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019") consistent while building protobuf as well as ONNX.
You can get protobuf by running the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git
cd protobuf
git checkout v21.12
cd cmake
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<protobuf_install_dir> -Dprotobuf_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIME=OFF -Dprotobuf_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -Dprotobuf_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF .
msbuild protobuf.sln /m /p:Configuration=Release
msbuild INSTALL.vcxproj /p:Configuration=ReleaseThen it will be built as a static library and installed to <protobuf_install_dir>. Please add the bin directory(which contains protoc.exe) to your PATH.
set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<protobuf_install_dir>;%CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH%Please note: if your protobuf_install_dir contains spaces, do not add quotation marks around it.
Alternative: if you don't want to change your PATH, you can set ONNX_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE instead.
set CMAKE_ARGS=-DONNX_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE=<full_path_to_protoc.exe>Then you can build ONNX as:
git clone https://github.com/onnx/onnx.git
cd onnx
git submodule update --init --recursive
# prefer lite proto
set CMAKE_ARGS=-DONNX_USE_LITE_PROTO=ON
pip install -e . -v
First, you need to install protobuf. The minimum Protobuf compiler (protoc) version required by ONNX is 3.6.1. Please note that old protoc versions might not work with CMAKE_ARGS=-DONNX_USE_LITE_PROTO=ON.
Ubuntu 20.04 (and newer) users may choose to install protobuf via
apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compilerIn this case, it is required to add -DONNX_USE_PROTOBUF_SHARED_LIBS=ON to CMAKE_ARGS in the ONNX build step.
A more general way is to build and install it from source. See the instructions below for more details.
Installing Protobuf from source
Debian/Ubuntu:
git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git
cd protobuf
git checkout v21.12
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build_source && cd build_source
cmake ../cmake -Dprotobuf_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j$(nproc)
make installCentOS/RHEL/Fedora:
git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git
cd protobuf
git checkout v21.12
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build_source && cd build_source
cmake ../cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib64 -Dprotobuf_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j$(nproc)
make installHere "-DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON" is crucial. By default static libraries are built without "-fPIC" flag, they are not position independent code. But shared libraries must be position independent code. Python C/C++ extensions(like ONNX) are shared libraries. So if a static library was not built with "-fPIC", it can't be linked to such a shared library.
Once build is successful, update PATH to include protobuf paths.
Then you can build ONNX as:
git clone https://github.com/onnx/onnx.git
cd onnx
git submodule update --init --recursive
# Optional: prefer lite proto
export CMAKE_ARGS=-DONNX_USE_LITE_PROTO=ON
pip install -e . -vexport NUM_CORES=`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`
brew update
brew install autoconf && brew install automake
wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v21.12/protobuf-cpp-3.21.12.tar.gz
tar -xvf protobuf-cpp-3.21.12.tar.gz
cd protobuf-3.21.12
mkdir build_source && cd build_source
cmake ../cmake -Dprotobuf_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j${NUM_CORES}
make installOnce build is successful, update PATH to include protobuf paths.
Then you can build ONNX as:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/onnx/onnx.git
cd onnx
# Optional: prefer lite proto
set CMAKE_ARGS=-DONNX_USE_LITE_PROTO=ON
pip install -e . -vAfter installation, run
python -c "import onnx"to verify it works.
For full list refer to CMakeLists.txt
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USE_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIMEshould be 1 or 0, not ON or OFF. When set to 1 onnx links statically to runtime library. Default:USE_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIME=0 -
DEBUGshould be 0 or 1. When set to 1 onnx is built in debug mode. or debug versions of the dependencies, you need to open the CMakeLists file and append a letterdat the end of the package name lines. For example,NAMES protobuf-litewould becomeNAMES protobuf-lited. Default:Debug=0
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ONNX_USE_PROTOBUF_SHARED_LIBSshould beONorOFF. Default:ONNX_USE_PROTOBUF_SHARED_LIBS=OFF USE_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIME=0ONNX_USE_PROTOBUF_SHARED_LIBSdetermines how onnx links to protobuf libraries.- When set to
ON- onnx will dynamically link to protobuf shared libs, PROTOBUF_USE_DLLS will be defined as described here, Protobuf_USE_STATIC_LIBS will be set toOFFandUSE_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIMEmust be 0. - When set to
OFF- onnx will link statically to protobuf, and Protobuf_USE_STATIC_LIBS will be set toON(to force the use of the static libraries) andUSE_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIMEcan be0or1.
- When set to
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ONNX_USE_LITE_PROTOshould beONorOFF. When set toONonnx uses lite protobuf instead of full protobuf. Default:ONNX_USE_LITE_PROTO=OFF -
ONNX_WERRORshould beONorOFF. When set toONwarnings are treated as errors. Default:ONNX_WERROR=OFFin local builds,ONin CI and release pipelines.
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Note: the
import onnxcommand does not work from the source checkout directory; in this case you'll seeModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'onnx.onnx_cpp2py_export'. Change into another directory to fix this error. -
If you run into any issues while building Protobuf as a static library, please ensure that shared Protobuf libraries, like libprotobuf, are not installed on your device or in the conda environment. If these shared libraries exist, either remove them to build Protobuf from source as a static library, or skip the Protobuf build from source to use the shared version directly.
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If you run into any issues while building ONNX from source, and your error message reads,
Could not find pythonXX.lib, ensure that you have consistent Python versions for common commands, such aspythonandpip. Clean all existing build files and rebuild ONNX again.
ONNX uses pytest as test driver. In order to run tests, you will first need to install pytest:
pip install pytest nbvalAfter installing pytest, use the following command to run tests.
pytestCheck out the contributor guide for instructions.
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