Getting the core instruction set correct is the value of tinygrad Max size tensor is 6-D for the pool2d Unary Ops === These are the simplest to reason about, and have pointwise mem access. A and B are always the same size Forward : A -> B Backward (binary): (B', A) -> A' Reduce Ops (with axis) === These take in an axis argument. B is smaller than A Max and Sum are pretty different, do we really need Max? Forward : A -> B Backward : B' -> A' Binary Ops (with broadcasting) === Pointwise mem access also. Broadcasting adds complexity, aliased input. Unbroadcasting for grad is a sum, but should be combined with the ternary op. Forward : (A, B) -> C Backward (ternary): (C', A, B) -> (A', B') C.shape = max(A.shape, B.shape) Movement Ops === Reshape, Transpose, Slice Depending on your Tensor implementation, these are free. Reshape is almost always free. Slice can be made free. Transpose is hard to make free except in trivial cases. Regardless, these are "reindexings" of existing arrays Processing Ops === Matmul is 1 matmul for forward, 2 for backward. Conv2D is very complex.