Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSoC and Machine learning
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/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSoC and Machine learning
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Alp Mestanogullari a...@mestan.fr wrote: 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 Well, I'd like to tie two of my favourite things together. I'm using neural nets here and there (not for very big tasks though, yet) and I intended to use them in haskell too. The code from [0] was intended to become one day useful for a project on neural nets in Haskell. I would be interested in this project if it will be accepted and there would be mentors. [0]: http://pgraycode.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/a-general-network-module/ -- Mihai Maruseac ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSoC and Machine learning
Well, you can join #hnn or #haskell-soc to discuss that with us. But don't put too much hope on that, I'm quite sure it isn't GSoC worthy. OTOH, any contribution is always welcome heh. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mihai Maruseac mihai.marus...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Alp Mestanogullari a...@mestan.fr wrote: 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 Well, I'd like to tie two of my favourite things together. I'm using neural nets here and there (not for very big tasks though, yet) and I intended to use them in haskell too. The code from [0] was intended to become one day useful for a project on neural nets in Haskell. I would be interested in this project if it will be accepted and there would be mentors. [0]: http://pgraycode.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/a-general-network-module/ -- Mihai Maruseac -- Alp Mestanogullari http://alpmestan.wordpress.com/ http://alp.developpez.com/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
