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# Rust ML IG Meeting 00031

## Meeting Info

Date: 2021-10-13

Start time: [0900ET](http://timesched.pocoo.org/?date=2021-10-13&tz=utc!,gb:london,de:berlin,us:new-york-city:ny,us:austin:tx,us:seattle:wa,cn:beijing&range=780,900)

Zoom: https://1password.zoom.us/j/98159786100?pwd=MHQvV2gwOUhsY3BIUStReFN1djFBZz09

## Agenda
- AreWeLearningYet seems to be a bit outdated, with the addition of interesting projects being stalled. 
- Enzyme / Gsoc is done :) -> https://rust-ml.github.io/oxide-enzyme
- Linfa becoming more popular? 7k downloads in the last 3 months, 10k overall: https://crates.io/search?q=linfa
- random forest question in introductions
- adding GPU support to our infrastructure

## Participants

 - Manuel
 - Lorenz
 - Yuhan
 - Qing

## Minutes

 - Enzyme: relevant PR https://github.com/wsmoses/Enzyme/pull/307
     - perhaps even ndarray support
     - for accepting PR: adding more tests required
 - new pass manager yields performance boost in Rust ~5-20% https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/pxvcy4/ryan_levick_the_new_pass_manager_in_llvm_13_now/
 - random forests/extra trees - nobody is working on implementations atm
 - can we cooperate with the rust-cv group in some way?
 
## Actions

 - ask at `AreWeLearningYet` whether the maintainer (https://github.com/anowell) needs support
 - release new version of Linfa (i.e. 0.5)
     - open PR with release notes