[mlpack] Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Rishabh Rawat]

Hi everyone,
I am Rishabh Rawat, 3rd Year undergraduate, Electrical Engineering,
studying at IIT Bombay. I have done a course in machine learning and have
been following mlpack since some time.
I have tested the sample programs and was now looking forward to implement
these universal bindings as my GSOC project. It would be a great help if
you could give me a few pointers on how to begin.

Another thing is, the tutorials on the website encompass a very few of the
classes and utilities of mlpack, and I am not familiar with all of the
algorithms incorporated. Do we have some database of expected inputs and
outputs so i can test the working of them while trying these bindings.

Regards

Rishabh Rawat
Third Year UG
Electrical Engineering
IIT BOMBAY

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Ryan Curtin <ryan at ratml.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:55:46AM +0530, SAHEB MOTIANI wrote:
> > Hi Ryan,
> >
> > I just wanted to propose a new idea. Not completely new, but on the lines
> > of bindings.
> >
> > *JS bindings for mlpack / Porting mlpack to Web*
> >
> > Javascript is one of the widely used languages and it even runs on the
> > server side now, so it would be great to have it run on the web as well
> as
> > node console. Mozilla developed framework called Emscripten is widely
> used
> > for doing such projects.
> >
> > I did myself worked for such an idea for OGDF(Open Graph Drawing
> Framework)
> > in my GSOC 2013 (
> http://ogdf.net/doku.php/gsoc2013#porting_ogdf_to_the_web).
> > OGDF is a graph drawing C++ library making use of templates.
> >
> > Python and R bindings were proposed for OGDF even but having bindings for
> > JS/ Web /Node.js is an equally cool option to have.
> >
> > I would like to know your and our community views for the same.
> >
> > I would be happy to be a mentor for this idea, or Automatic Bindings
> Idea.
>
> I think the automatic bindings are a far better step for this.  Any
> bindings we've had in the past (MATLAB and R) have become out of date
> very quickly as the interface to the command-line programs change, and
> end up unmaintained, non-functional code.
>
> Personally I think that automatic bindings are the single most important
> project we could have this summer; so, hopefully, I can find a good
> student.  If not, I'll probably end up attempting to find some time to
> implement the automatic binding system myself, and if that works out,
> then we can figure out how to give it a Javascript interface.
>
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