Hello Oleksandr, Thank you for you interest in mlpack.
Evolutionary algorithms are welcomed and can be a good project, we already have several algorithms in ensmallen such as PSO and cmaes. I do not think that moving cmaes to mlpack would be a good idea. The objective of ensmallen is to have all optimization methods in one place, knowing that ensmallen was already part of mlpack. Rust binding is a good idea too, as GNN. However, non of these ideas is related to one another, which will make it very hard to create a solid and consistent GSoC project, knowing that GSoC this year is shorter. Therefore, I would concentrate on one idea and build a proposal on it, and try to have some proof of concept in order to make the proposal more convincing. Hope you find this helpful. Thanks, Omar On 03/15, Oleksandr Nikolskyy wrote: > Hi, I am Oleksandr, CS Masters student from Bonn, Germany. > > I was reading about cma es and its extensions(which is one of gsoc ideas) > and it is really interesting.Found also some additional sources about > evolution algorithms in general e.g > https://openai.com/blog/evolution-strategies/ > https://blog.otoro.net/2017/10/29/visual-evolution-strategies/ > Sounds also like the results of evolutional algorithms can be used for some > RL problems.I would be interested to work on a proposal for GSOC, if this > topic is still free.Currently, the cma es is living in the ensmallen > library.If working on this topic, is it a good idea to work towards the > implementation of cma-es enhancements in the mlpack package? For example to > enable bindings? > > > Also, I had some other ideas: > > > 1. Create Rust bindings > 2. Start mlpack.js, as a ready to use node package > 3. Add explicit support for graph neural networks to the ann module > along with the core module. > > Would be happy about your feedback! :) In the meanwhile, I will continue my > research on the realizability of these ideas. > _______________________________________________ > mlpack mailing list > [email protected] > http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack
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