https://github.com/yiransheng/tensor-ops-js
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 6:08 AM, Michał Wadas <[email protected]> wrote: > Why should be it included in standard library? > > Are there widely used libraries providing similar capabilities? > > Why is it preferable to implementing tensor operations in Web Assembly? > > > On 27 Jan 2018 2:50 am, "Robert Eisele" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Allocating multi-dimensional arrays in Javascript is only possible by > building each dimension individually. In addition to being a very tedious > job, a developer has no control over memory usage, which in general is > likely to be very high. > > Seeing an array algebraically as a vector, typed arrays have already > created the ability to work more efficiently and memory-consciously with > lists of numbers. A natural extension of this is not just a matrix, but a > tensor. > > I would like to suggest tensors as a native language construct in ES. This > would have the advantage that developers could write highly parallelizable > code independently of WebGL. As an API one could introduce the following > classes in analogy to typed arrays: > > - IntXTensor > - UintXTensor > - FloatXTensor > > Where X is one of {8, 16, 32, 64}. To make these tensor objects really > effective, it is necessary to introduce meaningful operations, maybe > similar to the features of TensorFlow. I think by introducing tensors in > the browser (but also node.js), a wide range of new applications open up. > For example, working with deep learning right in the browser or calculating > filters on images without having to write shaders for them. > > The most important thing probably is having a way of storing high > dimensional data in the browser without worrying about the memory > footprint, even for complex applications. > > What do you think about it? > > Robert Eisele > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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