accelerate VS hasktorch

Someone has opened a PR for accelerate here https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/pull/525 (sadly seems not actively maintained at the moment, but that can always change if people care enough). I agree for an executable you should freeze your dependencies and compiler version, and using 8.10 is fine. Although there are tons of improvements in 9.2+

Backprop is a neat library. However, I guess its use case is if you actually don't want to go for anything standard like Torch or TF (perhaps for research?) For instance, if I were to use something like Accelerate for GPU acceleration, or some other computation-oriented library, then I would mix it with Backprop. Previously, I have benefited from Backprop in a ConvNet tutorial and I liked it.

Wait, really? Here's a conversation I had with him: https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/discussions/528

I know Accelerate is being developed at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. You can look at publications by Trevor McDonell to get a taste of what they are doing.

I’m personally a big fan of http://www.acceleratehs.org / https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-llvm

Looking for a few projects that make use of it, I found accelerate, hawk, polysemy and pretty-simple, so I'll be interested to poke around in their code and see how they have things set up.

There's accelerate for GPU computing and hmatrix for bindings to BLAS and LAPACK.

I'm toying with the idea of replacing vector values with vector generators, where e.g. v1 + v2 is not evaluated to a new vector, but to a vector program. This is similar to the approaches of Accelerate and TensorFlow. On the flip side, I don't think I could get rid of the overhead, and I expect much smaller computation loads than aforementioned libraries, so overheads could be very significant. The added benefit of using vector generators is that the generator could not only be evaluated, but also be turned into a Latex formula.

I assume you are getting https://github.com/hasktorch/hasktorch/issues/631? I suspect you need to upgrade to GHC 9.2 to work reliably on M1.

You might find the Deep Learning From The First Principles tutorials by Bogdan Penkovsky an interesting survey of native Haskell implementations of deep neural networks, and a bit more. It demonstrates some native charting capabilities, and Day 9 uses Hasktorch.

I'm new to Nix and I'm trying to set up a Jupyter notebook environment for Haskell that includes the Hasktorch package. I'm using the jupyenv project from Tweag as the foundation, and I've been able to get it working with some basic Haskell packages. However, I'm running into issues when I try to add Hasktorch to the mix.

That said, there are some things that try to do this. Haskell has a port of torch called HaskTorch that includes this kind of typed tensor shapes, and calls the Z3 theorem prover on the backend to solve type inference. It can get away with this because of the LiquidHaskell compiler extension, which has refinement types capable of solving this kind of typing problem, and is already pretty mature. Dex is a research language from Google that's based on Haskell and built to explore this kind of typechecking. Really you'd want to do this in Rust, because that's where the tradeoff of speed and safety for convenience makes the most sense, but rust is just barely on the edge of having a type system capable of this. You have to get really clever with the type system to make it work at all, and there's been no sustained push from any company to develop this into a mature solution. Hopefully something better comes along soon

As rightfully pointed u/gelisam, both Hasktorch and Pytorch are essentially the same things (bindings to existing Torch library). Therefore, it should be generally possible to use existing pretrained models. Here is an example.

I think it's likely that http://hasktorch.org/ is the library you will want to use for AI models, once you feel comfortable with Haskell.

IF (big if) it turns out you do need deep learning then doing it in Hasktorch http://hasktorch.org/ could be a fun learning project. The team making it is super nice and responsive, too

This said, if you want do do deep learning Python is the obvious choice atm, if only for copy-pasting code from examples (however do you know HaskTorch? https://github.com/hasktorch/hasktorch/ )