Rust ML WG Meeting 00025

Meeting Info

Date: 20210526

Start time: 1400ET

Convolutaion NN implemetnation
- performance wasn't as good as expected
- chrism started a new implmentation from scratch and has some nice numbers
  - cpu only for now
  - going to analyze it, and hopefully build alexnet
Google Summer of Code (gsoc) Enzyme project got accepted
- get two gsoc students for the task, so split the work!
- will keep us updated for the next steps
  - plus the LLVM developer mailing list
- gsoc has a hard deadline (sometime in August)
outlook for linfa + update roadmap?
- lorenz doesn't have much time
- trying to find direction with linfa
- accepted nearest neighbors pull request
- new issue for improvements?
  - boosting random forest
  - thinking about opening an issue to track how can we improve the existing algorithms
- possibly clean up the issues in linfa to better organize what is open and pending
Aero-Rust Working Group
- expressed interest in the ML group
- not super experienced in OSS and/or rust
- working on coming up with a consesnsis project
- possibly putting an image classifier on a drone would be fun!
Fun datasets
- http://xviewdataset.org/
  - large classification project
  - first iteration
- https://xview2.org/
  - damage classification
  - ricky worked on the baseline
    - https://github.com/DIUx-xView/xView2_baseline