The existing documentation about MLIR focuses on long term vision, how its pieces fit together, and the benefits of modular and composable infrastructure in the vast and distant future. While this viewpoint appeals to some, it causes concern for others who are more concerned about the “here and now” - why does it make sense to make a “revolutionary” change when any individual problem can be fixed in place? This document explains that adoption of MLIR to solve graph based problems isn...