Hello Anwaar, first of all, thanks again for all the great contributions over the last months. I like the idea, as you already pointed out Ryan is working on a major updated, so I'll let him comment on the feasibility, how the approach fits into the updated architecture.
Thanks, Marcus > On Mar 10, 2022, at 8:09 PM, Anwaar khalid <khalidanwaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm Anwaar Khalid, currently a 4th year dual degree CS student at IIITDM, > India. I've been contributing to mlpack for quite some time now, particularly > in the ANN codebase & I wish to spend the summer working with mlpack under > GSoC-22. I hope to propose a potential idea for a large project (~350 hours) > through this thread & get the community's feedback to help build my proposal. > > I really like the idea of building a DAG class for the ANN module. I've been > researching and found out that MATLAB also has a DAG framework > <https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/ref/dagnetwork.html> for > building complex neural network architectures. I really like how they have > approached this & I think we can build a similar interface for mlpack. In PR > #2777, Ryan added a `MultiLayer > <https://github.com/zoq/mlpack/blob/ann-vtable/src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/multi_layer.hpp>` > class which can be used as the vertices of this DAG network. And we can add > an `AddEdge` module which will allow layers to have input from multiple > layers and also redirect their output to multiple layers. > > Once the DAG class is built, I can adapt my InceptionV3 layers PR > <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/2963> to use that class & then finally > we can add the InceptionV3 model to the models repository. And if there's > time left in the end, I can demonstrate the usage of InceptionV3 model in the > examples repo by solving a simple image classification task. > > I wanted to get the community's opinions on these ideas. Are the number of > deliverables sufficient for a large sized project? Looking forward to hearing > back from the community :) > > > Best > Anwaar Khalid > Github Username: hello-fri-end > _______________________________________________ > mlpack mailing list > mlpack@lists.mlpack.org > http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack
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