autograd

Tensors and differentiable operations backed by ndarray.

Cargo.toml

If you use basic linalg operations, especially matrix multiplications, blas feature would be important to speed them up.

[dependencies]
autograd = {"<version>", features = ["blas", "<blas-implementation-choice>"] }

<blas-implementation-choice> must be one of the following (See also blas-src)

• accelerate macOS only
• intel-mkl Intel/AMD CPU only. Includes Vector Mathematics (VM) ops
• openblas

Features

Reverse-mode automatic differentiation using lazy tensors

Here we are just computing partial derivatives of z = 2x^2 + 3y + 1.

use autograd as ag;
use ag::tensor_ops::*;

ag::run(|ctx: &mut ag::Context<_>| {
   let x = ctx.placeholder("x", &[]);
   let y = ctx.placeholder("y", &[]);
   let z = 2.*x*x + 3.*y + 1.;

   // dz/dy
   let gy = &grad(&[z], &[y])[0];
   println!("{:?}", gy.eval(ctx));   // => Ok(3.)

   // dz/dx (requires to fill the placeholder `x`)
   let gx = &grad(&[z], &[x])[0];
   let feed = ag::ndarray::arr0(2.);
   println!("{:?}", ctx.evaluator().push(gx).feed(x, feed.view()).run()[0]);  // => Ok(8.)

   // ddz/dx (differentiates `z` again)
   let ggx = &grad(&[gx], &[x])[0];
   println!("{:?}", ggx.eval(ctx));  // => Ok(4.)
});

Neural networks

This crate has various low-level features inspired by tensorflow/theano to train neural networks. Since computation graphs require only bare minimum of heap allocations, the overhead is small, even for complex networks.

// MNIST digits classification with multi-layer-perceptron
use autograd as ag;
use ag::optimizers::adam::Adam;
use ag::tensor_ops::*;
use ag::prelude::*;

let mut env = ag::VariableEnvironment::new();

let rng = ag::ndarray_ext::ArrayRng::<f32>::default();

// Register variables in this env.
env.name("w").set(rng.glorot_uniform(&[28 * 28, 10]));
env.name("b").set(ag::ndarray_ext::zeros(&[1, 10]));

let adam = Adam::default("my_adam", env.default_namespace().current_var_ids(), &mut env);

for epoch in 0..3 {  // 0.11 sec/epoch on 2.7GHz Intel Core i5
   env.run(|ctx| {
       let x = ctx.placeholder("x", &[-1, 28*28]);
       let y = ctx.placeholder("y", &[-1]);
       let w = ctx.variable("w");
       let b = ctx.variable("b");
       let z = matmul(x, w) + b;
       let mean_loss = reduce_mean(sparse_softmax_cross_entropy(z, &y), &[0], false);
       let grads = &grad(&[mean_loss], &[w, b]);

       // let mut feeder = ag::Feeder::new();
       // feeder.push(x, x_batch).push(y, y_batch);
       // adam.update(&[w, b], grads, ctx, feeder);
   });
}

For detailed, see documentation or examples