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Package Health Score

52 / 100

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Security issues found
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Inactive
community
Active

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Popularity

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GitHub Stars: 14.64K
Forks: 2.26K
Contributors: -

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package horovod, we found that it has been starred 14,642 times.

Security

Security issues found

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Jun 12, 2023
Direct Vulnerabilities: 1
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Indirect Vulnerabilities: 0
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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

License

Apache-2.0

Security Policy

Yes

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 380
Open PR: 26
Last Release: 2 years ago
Last Commit: 1 month ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of horovod based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for horovod is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to PyPI in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 0
Funding: No

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=3.6

Age: 8 years
Latest Release: 2 years ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 73
Maintainers: 2
Wheels: No

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def main(_):

  hvd.init()
  FLAGS.output_dir = FLAGS.output_dir if hvd.rank() == 0 else os.path.join(FLAGS.output_dir, str(hvd.rank()))
  FLAGS.num_train_steps = FLAGS.num_train_steps // hvd.size()
  FLAGS.num_warmup_steps = FLAGS.num_warmup_steps // hvd.size()
  tf.logging.set_verbosity(tf.logging.INFO)

  if not FLAGS.do_train and not FLAGS.do_eval:
    raise ValueError("At least one of `do_train` or `do_eval` must be True.")

  bert_config = modeling.BertConfig.from_json_file(FLAGS.bert_config_file)

  tf.gfile.MakeDirs(FLAGS.output_dir)

  input_files = []
  for input_pattern in FLAGS.input_file.split(","):
    input_files.extend(tf.gfile.Glob(input_pattern))

  tf.logging.info("*** Input Files ***")
  for input_file in input_files:
    tf.logging.info("  %s" % input_file)

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FAQs

What is horovod?

Distributed training framework for TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Apache MXNet. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for horovod, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is horovod popular?

The python package horovod receives a total of 19,797 weekly downloads. As such, horovod popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is horovod well maintained?

We found indications that horovod is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is horovod safe to use?

Security issues were found while scanning the latest version of horovod, and a total of 1 vulnerabilities were detected. It is highly advised to conduct a security review before using this package. View the full security scan results.

Last updated on 7 December-2025, at 10:49 (UTC).

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Distributed training framework for TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Apache MXNet. For more information about how to use this package see README

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