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Is creation of custom operators supported?

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Since Jan 10, 2017.

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In the MXNet docs there's a section on how to create new custom operators (Layers) and the doc there suggests this can be done in the "front-end" language - Python is suggested, but I'm wondering if this is doable in Julia as well? The document talks about using CustomOp for doing this, but I'm not seeing that under mx.

Specifically, their example code for Python shows:

class Softmax(mx.operator.CustomOp)
...

I'm not seeing an mx.operator.CustomOp when I search around in the Julia REPL.

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