Machine and Deep Learning with OCaml Natively

As someone who also wrote my own deep learning library from scratch in a less-known language (Nim: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer), I must say this looks very nice.

I especially like the syntax for declaring neural networks.

One thing I'm unclear of is the slicing. get_fancy seems quite complex compared to Numpy and it seems to return a copy instead of allowing in-place modification of a slice?

smiths1999• 7 years ago

I really like this but I wish they included some performance numbers. How does training and inference speed compare to TensorFlow or PyTorch?

synaesthesisx• 7 years ago

Is OCaml typically used in production at a lot of places (other than Jane Street)?

fuklief• 7 years ago

I'm guessing at least the sponsors of the OCaml software foundation: https://ocaml-sf.org/sponsors/

xvilka2• 7 years ago

Plus Facebook with their Flow[1], Infer[2][3], Airbus with their BinCAT[4], and Frama-C[5].

[1] https://github.com/facebook/flow

[2] https://fbinfer.com/

[3] https://github.com/facebook/infer

[4] https://github.com/airbus-seclab/bincat

[5] http://frama-c.com/

huy-nguyen• 7 years ago

I know that Ahrefs and OneGraph use it for production.

malberto• 7 years ago

I work at Bloomberg in derivatives. C++ is our backbone but there is definitely a lot of OCaml in production. To tell it all we have BLAN, an OCaml-ish language that you (as our customer) can use to structure (exotic) derivative contracts and get them priced in DLIB.

RocketSyntax• 7 years ago

Enrolled in an OCaml course once. Dropped that like a sack of potatoes.

k__• 7 years ago

Maybe Reason is more of your liking?

nafizh• 7 years ago

Machine learning needs a lot of data exploration, and data reflection. Problem with languages like OCaml is that, they are a bottleneck in that exploration where you have to think more about the language rather than the question you are trying to ask the data.

wtetzner• 7 years ago

I don’t think that’s true once you’re comfortable with the language.

Machine and Deep Learning with OCaml Natively

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