Export a PyTorch model to ONNX and validate output parity with onnxruntime

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Steps

  1. Put the model in eval mode and prepare example inputs matching the expected shape
  2. Call torch.onnx.export(model, example_inputs, 'model.onnx', ...), using dynamic_axes for the legacy TorchScript-based exporter or dynamic_shapes with dynamo=True for the newer torch.export-based exporter
  3. Check which exporter path is default for your installed PyTorch version, since the dynamo-based exporter became default in more recent 2.x releases
  4. Load the exported file with onnxruntime.InferenceSession('model.onnx') and run inference on the same example inputs
  5. Compare ONNX Runtime outputs against the original PyTorch model's outputs numerically to confirm parity

Known gotchas

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