Hello Chintan, > I'll check it out thoroughly today. I went over it briefly and noticed > it involves the gbest PSO; maybe I can start with lbest PSO then?
That is correct, if you like to work on it, please feel free. > Glad to know that, I'll also look into the idea of using lambdas, and > see if I can come up with a comparison between the two. Sounds good, that might be a good point to include in the application. > Thanks for all the help. I'll begin drafting a proposal in a day or > two. Is there a specific format for the proposal? I went through the > Application Guide; there was no mention of a format, just guidelines > and required content in the proposal. Will a simple Google Doc do? Google recommends, google docs, which makes it super easy to provide feedback. Thanks, Marcus > On 12. Mar 2018, at 03:14, Chintan Soni <chintan.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Marcus, > >> There is already an open PR for the standard PSO >> https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/1225 that should be helpful. > > I'll check it out thoroughly today. I went over it briefly and noticed > it involves the gbest PSO; maybe I can start with lbest PSO then? > >> Agreed, that is definitely an option we can adapt for the PSO method. > > Glad to know that, I'll also look into the idea of using lambdas, and > see if I can come up with a comparison between the two. > >> Agreed, another FunctionType is a good idea to represent multiple functions, >> one >> idea is to use variadic templates to pass multiple functions, that would >> allow >> us to use the same interface.- > > Yes, variadic templates seem like the right option for now. > >> Right, the codebase does use a lot of memory in the build step, one idea is >> to >> turn off the python bindings and the executables: >> >> cmake -DBUILD_CLI_EXECUTABLES=OFF -DBUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS=OFF .. >> >> you can also check if adding -DDEBUG=ON helps. Also, maybe there is an >> option to >> increase/add Swap? > > I'll turn off the python bindings and executables and try building > once again. I have been using the DEBUG flag already, so I'll look > into adding swap area next. > > Thanks for all the help. I'll begin drafting a proposal in a day or > two. Is there a specific format for the proposal? I went through the > Application Guide; there was no mention of a format, just guidelines > and required content in the proposal. Will a simple Google Doc do? > > Thanks and regards, > Chintan _______________________________________________ mlpack mailing list mlpack@lists.mlpack.org http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack