Note that, if any student is interested, the Haskell Neural Network library [1] is being rewritten from scratch. We (Thomas Bereknyi and I) are discussing many core data structure alternatives, with some suggestions from Edward Kmett. There may even be some room for a rewrite or update of fgl, possibly with an alternative conception, to fit well HNN. I am definitely not sure if this is worth a GSoC and if the community would benefit that much from such a work, but it's there.
[1] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HNN On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Grzegorz C <pite...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Ketil Malde-5 wrote: > > > > Once upon a time, I proposed a GSoC project for a machine learning > > library. > > > > I still get some email from prospective students about this, whom I > > discourage as best I can by saying I don't have the time or interest to > > pursue it, and that chances aren't so great since you guys tend to > > prefer language-related stuff instead of application-related stuff. > > > > But if anybody disagrees with my sentiments and is willing to mentor > > this, there are some smart students looking for an opportunity. I'd be > > happy to forward any requests. > > > > I don't know whether this is a good idea for a GSoC project, but I would > certainly welcome such a library. I am using Haskell a bit for statistical > NLP: in my experience currently Haskell is excellent for the components > which deal with data preprocessing and feature extraction, but when it > comes > to implementing the core training algorithms and running them on large data > sets, it's easy to get very poor performance and/or unexpected stack > overflows. So if a library could provide some well-tuned and tested > building > blocks for implementing the performance critical parts of machine learning > algorithms, it would improve the coding experience in a major way. > > Best, > -- > Grzegorz > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/my-gsoc-project-topic-tp28068970p28081419.html > Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- Alp Mestanogullari http://alpmestan.wordpress.com/ http://alp.developpez.com/
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