Rust ML WG Meeting 00019

Meeting Info

Date: 20210208

Start time: 1600ET

Zoom: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/6601852842

Agenda

Discussion about improving participation in working group meetings and/or making them more useful

Participants

chris m
Ivano Donadi
Manuel

Minutes

Viewpoint of a newcomer coming from Ivano, whos has been working on linfa recently
Having a particular topic to discuss about every couple of weeks outside of personal projects
- Are there particular topics that people would take time to come listen to?
  - Implementation of algorithms sort of like university-like lectures
  - Not necessarily at university-level, more low-key (doesn't need to be impeccable
- Doesn't necessarily need to be directly Rust-related, but can be machine-learning oriented in general
Quick updates on Manuel's Rust-RL
- Mostly been working on Learning Agents
- Hasn't really had a need for stacked convolution layers so far
- Small discussion about how training multiple convolutional layers will probably been really slow on CPU-only

Action Items

Manuel to post link about Enzyme meeting, may be using that as the basis for his bachelor's thesis
Put together a plan for a separate meeting next week about trying to improve participation
- Ivano can probably join, as can Chris M
- Chris M to reach out to Ricky about scheduling