ferray

A NumPy-equivalent scientific computing library for Rust. Correctly-rounded math, SIMD-accelerated operations, and zero panics.

Why ferray?

• More accurate than NumPy on every transcendental function (CORE-MATH, < 0.5 ULP)
• Faster than NumPy on 23 of 55 benchmarks — all FFT sizes, all variance/std, small reductions
• Memory safe without garbage collection (17 Kani formal verification proof harnesses)
• Zero panics in library code — all public functions return Result<T, FerrayError>
• Full NumPy API surface — linalg, fft, random, polynomial, masked arrays, string arrays

Quick Start

[dependencies]
ferray = "0.1"

use ferray::prelude::*;

// Create arrays
let a = Array1::<f64>::linspace(0.0, 1.0, 1000)?;
let b = ferray::ufunc::sin(&a)?;

// Linear algebra
let m = Array2::<f64>::eye(3)?;
let det = ferray::linalg::det(&m)?;

// FFT
let spectrum = ferray::fft::fft(&b, None, None, None)?;

// Statistics
let mean = ferray::stats::mean(&a, None)?;
let std = ferray::stats::std(&a, None, None)?;

Performance

Benchmarked against NumPy 2.3.5 on Linux (Rust 1.85, LTO, target-cpu=native).

Where ferray dominates

Where NumPy wins

Scorecard: ferray 23, NumPy 32. All NumPy wins are transcendentals (accuracy tradeoff) or matmul (BLAS gap). GPU acceleration via CUDA is planned for Phase 6.

Fast mode: exp_fast

For throughput-sensitive workloads, ferray offers exp_fast() — an Even/Odd Remez decomposition that is ~30% faster than CORE-MATH while maintaining ≤1 ULP accuracy (faithfully rounded). It auto-vectorizes for SSE/AVX2/AVX-512/NEON with no lookup tables.

// Default: correctly rounded (≤0.5 ULP, CORE-MATH)
let result = ferray::exp(&array)?;

// Fast mode: faithfully rounded (≤1 ULP, ~30% faster)
let result = ferray::exp_fast(&array)?;

Both are more accurate than NumPy's libm-based exp() (which can be up to 8 ULP).

Accuracy

ferray uses CORE-MATH — the only correctly-rounded math library in production. Every transcendental returns the closest representable floating-point value to the mathematical truth.

Crate Structure

ferray is a workspace of 15 focused crates:

Key Design Decisions

• ndarray 0.17 for internal storage — NOT exposed in public API
• pulp 0.22 for portable SIMD (SSE2/AVX2/AVX-512/NEON) on stable Rust
• faer 0.24 for linear algebra, rustfft 6.4 for FFT
• CORE-MATH 1.0 for correctly-rounded transcendentals
• Edition 2024, MSRV 1.85
• All contiguous inner loops have SIMD paths for f32, f64, i32, i64

Beyond NumPy

Features that go beyond NumPy's capabilities:

• f16 support — half-precision floats as first-class citizens across all crates
• no_std core — ferray-core and ferray-ufunc compile without std (requires alloc)
• Const generic shapes — Shape1<N> through Shape6 for compile-time dimension checking
• Automatic differentiation — forward-mode autodiff via DualNumber<T>
• Memory safety — guaranteed by Rust's type system + Kani formal verification

GPU Acceleration (Planned)

Phase 6 design complete (.design/ferray-gpu.md). Architecture:

• CubeCL for cross-platform GPU kernels (write once, compile to CUDA/Vulkan/Metal/WebGPU)
• cudarc for NVIDIA vendor libraries (cuBLAS 100x matmul, cuFFT, cuSOLVER)
• GpuArray<T, D> with explicit host-device transfers and async stream execution
• Expected 10-100x speedups for large arrays on GPU

Building

cargo build --release
cargo test --workspace          # 1479 tests
cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0