rust-bert VS RustPython

Compare rust-bert vs RustPython and see what are their differences.

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rust-bert RustPython
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rust-bert

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-bert. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.
  • How to leverage the state-of-the-art NLP models in Rust
    3 projects | /r/infinilabs | 7 Jun 2023
    brew install libtorch brew link libtorch brew ls --verbose libtorch | grep dylib export LIBTORCH=$(brew --cellar pytorch)/$(brew info --json pytorch | jq -r '.[0].installed[0].version') export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LIBTORCH}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH git clone https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert.git cd rust-bert ORT_STRATEGY=system cargo run --example sentence_embeddings
  • Transformers.js
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2023
    I'd like to use this transformer model in rust (because it's on the backend, because I can use data munging and it will be faster, and for other reasons). It looks like a good model! But, it doesn't compile on Apple Silicon for wierd linking issues that aren't apparent - https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert/issues/338. I've spent a large part of today and yesterday attempting to find out why. The only other library that I've found for doing this kind of thing programmatically (particularly sentiment analysis) is this (https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp). Some of the models look a little older, which is OK, but it does mean that I'd have to do this in another language.

    Does anyone know of any sentiment analysis software that can be tuned (other than VADER - I'm looking for more along the lines of a transformer model) - like BERT, but is pretrained and can be used in Rust or Python? Otherwise I'll probably using spark-nlp and having to spin another process.

    Thanks.

  • Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2023
    Give this a look: https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert

    If you have Pytorch configured correctly, this should "just work" for a lot of the smaller models. It won't be a 1:1 ChatGPT replacement, but you can build some pretty cool stuff with it.

    > it's basically Python or bust in this space

    More or less, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. If you're on Apple Silicon, you have plenty of performance headroom to deploy Python code for this. I've gotten this library to work on systems with as little as 2gb of memory, so outside of ultra-low-end use cases, you should be fine.

  • Self-hosted Whisper-based voice recognition server for open Android phones
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
    I suspect something similar is possible with ChatGPT. Using the GPT-neo-125m model I've been able to get some really convincing (if lackluster) answers on 4 core ARM hardware and less than 2gb of memory. With enough sampling, you can get legible paragraph-length responses out in less than 10 seconds; that's pretty good for an offline program in my book.

    I'm using rust-bert to serve it over a Discord bot, similar to one of their examples[0]. It's running on Oracle VCPUs right now, but with dedi hardware and ML acceleration I can imagine the field moving really quickly.

    [0] https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert/blob/master/exampl...

  • Ask HN: What AI developer tools do you wish you'd discovered sooner?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Feb 2023
    Maybe a little played-out, but I've been having a blast with the rust-bert library this weekend: https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert

    With a little fanagling, you can get the GPT-Neo-1.3b model running on those free Oracle ARM VMs you can provision. I'm impressed, especially with the performance of the smallest model that uses less than a gig of memory.

  • Ask HN: Has anyone made a toy that integrates ChatGPT with voice into a toy?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2023
    Nope, but it's probably possible on a smaller, hobbyist scale. I've been playing with a few GPT libraries this week (namely rust-bert[0]) and I've been really impressive with local generation results on my crappy 2 core netbook. I can get 2 sentences to generate in ~5 seconds, which is pretty good in my book.

    Armed with a Pi-style SBC and your AI library of choice, I bet you could get pretty far implementing some stuff. Bonus points if you use Whisper for speech-to-text, and double brownie points if you can get an AI voice to read the generation back.

    [0] https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert/tree/master/exampl...

  • [D] Is Rust stable/mature enough to be used for production ML? Is making Rust-based python wrappers a good choice for performance heavy uses and internal ML dependencies in 2021?
    8 projects | /r/MachineLearning | 30 Dec 2021
    If you are using BERT models and some miscellaneous other related stuff then you should check out the rust-bert and Bert Sentence repos https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert

RustPython

Posts with mentions or reviews of RustPython. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
  • Encapsulation in Rust and Python
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
    Integrating Rust into Python, Edward Wright, 2021-04-12 Examples for making rustpython run actual python code Calling Rust from Python using PyO3 Writing Python inside your Rust code — Part 1, 2020-04-17 RustPython, RustPython Rust for Python developers: Using Rust to optimize your Python code PyO3 (Rust bindings for Python) Musing About Pythonic Design Patterns In Rust, Teddy Rendahl, 2023-07-14
  • FLaNK Stack Weekly 12 February 2024
    52 projects | dev.to | 12 Feb 2024
  • RustPython
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2024
    No.

    …and this one is no exception -> https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/issues/1940

    Packages that rely on c dependencies like numpy, etc. only work if you write a custom implementation by hand; the “normal” package flat out doesn’t (and cannot) work.

  • Show HN: RustPython for BeOS with W2c2
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2024
  • Rust is replacing C as the Python back end
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2024
    The title would be accurate if this project (https://rustpython.github.io/) was becoming the official version of Python.
  • RustPython: An open source Python 3 interpreter written in Rust
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2024
  • Rewrite Sympy in rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 11 Nov 2023
    If you absolutely need something comparable to Sympy, then one option might be to figure out how to best call Sympy from Rust. e.g. - RustPython, although it seems like Sympy isn't supported yet - Pyodide, and figuring out how to run it outside of a web browser. Probably also not very easy. - PyPy, and having a pretty simple Python binary for every platform - ...
  • Our Plan for Python 3.13
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2023
    I'm actually rooting for RustPython to reach a level of maturity that we'd just be able to ship apis and stuff with it.... https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
  • Python 11
    2 projects | /r/xonsh | 24 Mar 2023
    Good question and it also actual for: python 3.12, RustPython and xonsh binary.
  • This Week In Python
    5 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2023
    RustPython – A Python Interpreter written in Rust

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rust-bert and RustPython you can also consider the following projects:

Dlib - A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

CPython - The Python programming language

speak - Talk with your machine in this minimalistic Rust crate!

pyodide - Pyodide is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly

FlexGen - Running large language models like OPT-175B/GPT-3 on a single GPU. Focusing on high-throughput generation. [Moved to: https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen]

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

are-we-learning-yet - How ready is Rust for Machine Learning?

rust-numpy - PyO3-based Rust bindings of the NumPy C-API

ggml - Tensor library for machine learning

PyO3 - Rust bindings for the Python interpreter

lightseq - LightSeq: A High Performance Library for Sequence Processing and Generation

Rhai - Rhai - An embedded scripting language for Rust.