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autumnai / leaf

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Open Machine Intelligence Framework for Hackers. (GPU/CPU)

6Distinct people
18Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
5.5KGitHub stars
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Open Machine Intelligence Framework for Hackers. (GPU/CPU)

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> I get it, you don't like seeing Open Source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2) posted about. No you don't get it. I love hearing about such products - from the people who love using it so…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-10 13:46:02 UTC to 2021-06-01 11:39:18 UTC.

024682015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 3 submissions, 5 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC835
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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MJ here - founder of Autumn and creator of Leaf. I can give a quick comparison on Leaf vs. TensorFlow - although this might seem somewhat biased. We like what the Google engineers did on TensorFlow and share a lot of similar ideas on how future Machine Learning should be structured and implemented. Especially that in the end it is just a performant pipeline for numeric information processing. We feel that the biggest difference (besides the different stages of the project) is the language and the ecosystem that it embraces. We are strong believers in Rust and think that it might have good chances to succeed in the long run - which we outline in more detail in the Q&A[1]. Due to your question I would recommend picking up on the basic concepts of machine intelligence and then going with whatever ecosystem fits the task/stack. Might become s
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imilar to choices of web frameworks in the next couple of years. I think Neon[2] - as a Python framework - seems to be easy and performant as well. [1]: https://github.com/autumnai/leaf#why-rust [2]: https://github.com/NervanaSystems/neon
In Leaf: machine intelligence framework in Rust
It's unfortunate that just because Tensor Flow was released, you felt the need to replace references to deep learning (which is a somewhat well-defined application) by "machine intelligence" [1], which could mean so many things. Otherwise, it's great to see such initiatives in Rust. I'm unsure if there's an equivalent that implements more traditional ML algorithms (logistic regression, decision tree, random forest, SVM, etc.) [1] https://github.com/autumnai/leaf/commit/58bfa92abd5721eae116...
In Leaf: machine intelligence framework in Rust

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