# Rust ML WG Meeting 00029

## Meeting Info

Date: 20210721

Start time: 1400ET

Zoom: https://1password.zoom.us/j/99837743796?pwd=WjN3dmMwSnRuL0NERmp1NDdlUmJZZz09

## Agenda
-https://discord.com/channels/550706294311485440/550706294760144929/866086016133103656 -> Who is able to help them?
- Enzyme: Blogpost (rust-ml?)
- Tangram (automated machine learning framework written in Rust) https://github.com/tangramxyz/tangram
- https://www.tangram.xyz/benchmarks
- ~~OPTICS PR - if it's not merged before then :grin:~~ Just been merged
- Open PR in MNIST crate for removing reqwest
- Chris M is planning on adding an option for data augmentation soon

## Participants

- Chris
- Abhinav
- Ricky
- xd009642 (Daniel)
- Lorenz
- Manuel
- Isabella
- David

## Minutes

### who can help the discord person
- rustcv discord
- can we use linfa to do image clustering?
- get rid of linfa nn and pass in thier own nearish neightbor alogirthm
- also `no-std` compliant
- https://github.com/rust-ml/linfa/issues/147
- perhaps open an issue with `ndarray` to see if there's any interest in pure Rust feature
- Make the nn more configurable
- https://github.com/rust-ml/linfa/issues/15

### LDA and PLDA

- https://github.com/rust-ml/linfa/issues/148
- paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.05437.pdf
- needs upstream changes to `ndarray` first
-

### Enzyme Blog Post

- two need bitflags for `rustc`
- next step is getting `rustup` update
- unifying the links to toolchains
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/87297
- should we unify the blog post? rust-ml?
- will there be many or just a few?
- one "now"
- one when the project ends in a month or so

### Tangram

- David and Isabella
- tangram
- ml framework, everything is written Rust
- https://www.tangram.xyz/
- https://github.com/tangramxyz/tangram
- https://www.tangram.xyz/benchmarks
-

### Optics PR

- merged after about 6 months
- roadmap box needs ticked :smiley:

### Open PR in MNIST crate for removing reqwest
- existing PR that replaces reqwest with curl and ASCII progress bar
- https://github.com/quietlychris/mnist/pull/1
- also data augumentation MR coming soon
-

### Rust and Enzyme

- presenting at Univeristy of Toronto!

## Actions

- update roadmap for linfa
- blog post on Enzyme