caffe2-rs

This library is based on the flexible Caffe2 C++ project.

It provides a high performance and modular rust environment for deep learning.

As of July 1, 2023, the codebase is under construction: it is ready for interface experimentation and development work, but not yet for production.

If you are interested in this project and would like to contribute, your contribution is both welcome and appreciated!

The current bottleneck is in the translation of c++ statements into rust. It is possible to do this manually. However, it is better to do it automatically. Some work is being done in this domain, however there are several challenges to be overcome.

For more information, see chomper: https://github.com/klebs6/chomper

Note from original translator (klebs6)

Greetings! I have a few preliminary work-items to attend for a few months. Once these are done, I plan to productionize the chomper.

This will include integrations with the rust-ecosystem compiler tools.

During the productionization, we will be able to enable name resolution and type inference during transpilation (not to mention several performance wins).

This work will provide a massive speedup for the translation. Subsequently, caffe2-rs development will be free to progress.

If there are developers out there who would like to contribute to the c++ to rust transpiler development track, I would love to hear from you. Please feel free to reach out. I am sure the rust ecosystem will be grateful. C++ to Rust transpilation is a major bottleneck for many projects.

Acknowledgments

This project owes its DNA to the original authors of the Caffe2 C++ library, without whom, this work would not exist.

The author of this project would like to thank the original authors of the Caffe2 C++ library for their work, as well as the Rust community for their support.