[mlpack] GSoC'22 Project Proposal: Better Stack Layering & Ready-to-Use Model

[Marcus Edel]

Hello Shubham,

Thanks for your interest in the project. I think you are aware that Ryan is currently refactoring the ann codebase.
So when you say "This project will introduce breaking changes in ANN API." is that based on the current API or
the updated API, from the table PR? There was already some discussion on the mailing list about the DAG project:

http://knife.lugatgt.org/pipermail/mlpack/2022-March/004648.html

In case you haven't seen it already. It should be possible to implement DAG without breaking the new API,
especially since it introdcues some new concepts, like the MultiLayer which we can build on.

I like the second idea as well, one thing you should keep in mind that we currently don't have GPU support
(will change soonish), that is why we focused in the past on smaller models that you can run on a resource
constrained device, mobilenet is one example. So in your proposal I would go through the list and select reasonable
models, also, you should check if one of the models require the implemenation of a non implemented operation.

I hope anything I said was helpful, let me know if I should clarify anything further.

Thanks
Marcus


> On Mar 15, 2022, at 12:09 AM, Shubham Agrawal <shubham.agra1206 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> I hope this email finds you well. My name is Shubham Agrawal. I am currently doing my undergrad studies (3rd year) at IITD, India. I have been contributing to mlpack organization for the past 2 to 3 months, and I want to participate in GSoC '22 under this organization. I wanted to propose two large projects (~350 hours), and I wish to work on at least one of the ideas. Or any other idea can work too if there is some issue with my proposal.
> 
> I am attaching a pdf document that contains my proposal. I hope to get valuable feedback from the community for building my proposal with this thread. 
> 
> I am looking forward to hearing from you.
> 
> Regards
> Shubham Agrawal
> GitHub username - shubham1206agra
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