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syntaxdot
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Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust
I am so happy about them releasing this. A few years ago I wrote a multi-task syntax annotator in Rust using Laurent Mazare's excellent tch-rs binding (it seems like he is also working on Candle):
https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot
However, the deployment story was always quite difficult. The PyTorch C++ API is not stable, so a particular version of tch-rs will only work with a particular PyTorch version. So, anyone wanting to use SyntaxDot always had to get exactly the right version of libtorch (and set some environment variables) to build the project.
The idea of making an abstraction over Torch and Rust ndarray (similar to Burn) crossed my mind several times, but there is only so much that I could do as a solo developer. So Candle would be a god-given if I was still working on this project.
Seeing Candle wants to make me port curated-transformers to Candle for fun:
https://github.com/explosion/curated-transformers
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Ask HN: What is the job market like, for niche languages (Nim, crystal)?
They are obviously not as good as in Python, but if you are willing to invest time, it's definitely doable. E.g. I made a multi-task transformer-based syntax annotator in Rust using the tch Torch binding:
https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot
In my current job, I do NLP with Python, Cython, and some C++. I don't think doing it in Rust was much more work. Once you are beyond the stage of implementing a small research project or toy model, most systems are going to contain a lot of custom, specialized code. You will have to do that work in any language.
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PyTorch 1.8 release with AMD ROCm support
What I like about PyTorch is that most of the functionality is actually available through the C++ API as well, which has 'beta API stability' as they call it. So, there are good bindings for some other languages as well. E.g., I have been using the Rust bindings in a larger project [1], and they have been awesome. A precursor to the project was implemented using Tensorflow, which was a world of pain.
Even things like mixed-precision training are fairly easy to do through the API.
[1] https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot
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SpaCy v3.0 Released (Python Natural Language Processing)
Huggingface fills the need for task based prediction when you have a GPU.
With model distillation, it should be possible to annotate hundreds of sentences per second on a single CPU with a library like Huggingface Transformers.
For instance, one of my distilled Dutch multi-task syntax models (UD POS, language-specific POS, lemmatization, morphology, dependency parsing) annotates 316 sentences per second with 4 threads on a Ryzen 3700X. This distilled model has virtually no loss in accuracy, compared to the finetuned XLM-RoBERTa base model.
I don't use Huggingface Transformers, but ported some of their implementations to Rust [1], but that should not make a big difference since all the heavy lifting happens in C++ in libtorch anyway.
tl;dr: it is not true that tranformers are only useful for GPU prediction. You can get high CPU prediction speeds with some tricks (distillation, length-based bucketing in batches, etc.).
[1] https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot/tree/main/syntaxdot-t...
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Burn 0.10.0 Released 🔥 (Deep Learning Framework)
Release Note: https://github.com/burn-rs/burn/releases/tag/v0.10.0
- Deep Learning Framework in Rust: Burn 0.10.0 Released
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Why Rust Is the Optimal Choice for Deep Learning, and How to Start Your Journey with the Burn Deep Learning Framework
The comprehensive, open-source deep learning framework in Rust, Burn, has recently undergone significant advancements in its latest release, highlighted by the addition of The Burn Book 🔥. There has never been a better moment to embark on your deep learning journey with Rust, as this book will guide you through your initial project, providing extensive explanations and links to relevant resources.
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Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust
Burn (deep learning framework in rust) has WGPU backend (WebGPU) already. Check it out https://github.com/burn-rs/burn. It was released recently.
- Burn – A Flexible and Comprehensive Deep Learning Framework in Rust
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Announcing Burn-Wgpu: New Deep Learning Cross-Platform GPU Backend
For more details about the latest release see the release notes: https://github.com/burn-rs/burn/releases/tag/v0.8.0.
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Are there any ML crates that would compile to WASM?
Tract is the most well known ML crate in Rust, which I believe can compile to WASM - https://github.com/sonos/tract/. Burn may also be useful - https://github.com/burn-rs/burn.
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Any working wgpu compute example that would run in a browser?
We, the burn team, are working on the wgpu backend (WebGPU) for Burn deep learning framework. You can check out the current state: https://github.com/burn-rs/burn/tree/main/burn-wgpu
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I’ve fallen in love with rust so now what?
Here is the project: https://github.com/burn-rs/burn
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Is anyone doing Machine Learning in Rust?
Disclaimer, I'm the main author of Burn https://burn-rs.github.io.
What are some alternatives?
laserembeddings - LASER multilingual sentence embeddings as a pip package
candle - Minimalist ML framework for Rust
duckling - Language, engine, and tooling for expressing, testing, and evaluating composable language rules on input strings.
dfdx - Deep learning in Rust, with shape checked tensors and neural networks
spaCy - 💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
tch-rs - Rust bindings for the C++ api of PyTorch.
projects - 🪐 End-to-end NLP workflows from prototype to production
Graphite - 2D raster & vector editor that melds traditional layers & tools with a modern node-based, non-destructive, procedural workflow.
tensorflow - An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
tract - Tiny, no-nonsense, self-contained, Tensorflow and ONNX inference [Moved to: https://github.com/sonos/tract]
L2 - l2 is a fast, Pytorch-style Tensor+Autograd library written in Rust