Swift-AI
The Swift machine learning library. (by Swift-AI)
DL4S
Accelerated tensor operations and dynamic neural networks based on reverse mode automatic differentiation for every device that can run Swift - from watchOS to Linux (by palle-k)
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| Swift-AI | DL4S | |
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| 1 | 5 | |
| 6,012 | 100 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 7 years ago | 6 months ago | |
| Swift | Swift | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Swift-AI
Posts with mentions or reviews of Swift-AI.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-25.
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Are people using Swift for machine learning / differentiable programming outside of Apple?
Before CoreML was released (and also before BNNS), I wrote SwiftAI. The project made heavy use of Accelerate and the algorithms were written from scratch. It was a great project, and I planned to make a lot of additions, but CoreML came out pretty soon afterward and made the project mostly obsolete. Still a great learning experience and there was a fair bit of interest at the time.
DL4S
Posts with mentions or reviews of DL4S.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-05.
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Machine learning modules for swift
Lastly, there are some third party libraries that you could try. I wrote a machine learning / deep learning library for Swift a while ago: DL4S. It does not have GPU acceleration (yet), so it won't allow you to do large ML workloads, but it has no problem with datasets like MNIST and it has an API similar to PyTorch/Tensorflow 2.
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Should I use accelerate or another library for simple, np.sum-like, matrix operations?
Shameless plug: If you're looking for a more user friendly method for accelerated operations on vectors, matrices and tensors: I built Deep Learning for Swift a while ago, which implements a lot of numpy functions. It's primarily made for deep learning but you can also do number crunching with it.
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Anyone taking part or has taken part in the Swift Student Challenge?
Last year I won by building a chat bot with seq2seq and attention using my own deep learning library. The whole thing wasn't all that impressive from a visual standpoint but I guess the technical achievement was good enough for them. Also, I wrote a lot of stuff into the beyond WWDC field.
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Recommendations for Books on Deep Learning.
If you want to go the latter route, Apple provides a bunch of low level frameworks for this: Accelerate, BNNS, ML Compute and MetalPerformanceShaderGraph. CoreML also supports some limited fine tuning capabilities. There are also 3rd party solutions, like DL4S (which I created).
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Any good open source projects that uses Swift?
I actually have one project in this list myself (DL4S), but the project is probably not very beginner friendly to work on.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Swift-AI and DL4S you can also consider the following projects:
CoreML-Models - Largest list of models for Core ML (for iOS 11+)
AIToolbox - A toolbox of AI modules written in Swift: Graphs/Trees, Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, PCA, K-Means, Genetic Algorithms
MLKit - A simple machine learning framework written in Swift 🤖
BrainCore - The iOS and OS X neural network framework
Bender - Easily craft fast Neural Networks on iOS! Use TensorFlow models. Metal under the hood.
Tensorflow-iOS
CoreML-samples - Sample code for Core ML using ResNet50 provided by Apple and a custom model generated by coremltools.
PDFGenerator - A simple generator of PDF written in Swift.
SpriteKit+Spring - SpriteKit API reproducing UIView's spring animations with SKAction
Serrano - A Swift deep learning library with Accelerate and Metal support.