Distiller on colab

Although Distiller on Google Colaboratory is not officially supported, some people reported success when using this configuration (see for example).

To install Distiller on colab, open a new notebook and execute the following commands:

!git clone https://github.com/NervanaSystems/distiller.git
%cd distiller
!pip3 install -e .

To test successful installation:

import distiller
from distiller.models import create_model

print(distiller.__version__)

Which outputs:

0.4.0rc0