numrs2 0.1.0-alpha.2

A Rust implementation inspired by NumPy for numerical computing (NumRS2)
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# NumRS2 Implementation Status


This document provides an overview of the current implementation status of NumRS2, highlighting recent progress and next steps.

## Recent Accomplishments


### Documentation

- ✅ Comprehensive API documentation for all functions
- ✅ Detailed guides and tutorials mirroring NumPy's documentation
  - User Guide covering all major functionality
  - Module-specific guides (Random, Statistics, Linear Algebra, Polynomial, FFT)
- ✅ Project infrastructure documentation
  - Contributing guide
  - Getting started guide
  - Installation guide
  - Benchmarking guide
  - Release process documentation
  - Code of conduct
  - Governance model
  - NumPy migration guide

### Testing

- ✅ Property-based testing
  - Distribution statistical properties
  - Relationship tests between distributions
  - Linear algebra operation properties
  - Special functions properties
- ✅ Reference testing
  - Reference value tests for random distributions
  - Reference value tests for linear algebra operations
  - Reference value tests for special functions
- ✅ Benchmarking
  - Linear algebra benchmarks
  - Special functions benchmarks

## Current Focus Areas


### Testing

- [ ] Property tests for FFT operations
- [ ] Core array operations benchmarks
- [ ] Comparison benchmarks against NumPy/SciPy

### Development Practices

- [ ] Zero warnings approach with clippy checks
- [ ] Add clippy checks to CI workflow
- [ ] Test-driven development approach
- [ ] Efficient code review process

### Performance Optimization

- [ ] GPU acceleration for applicable operations

## Next Steps


1. **Complete the testing framework**
   - Implement property tests for FFT operations
   - Create benchmarks for core array operations
   - Develop comparison benchmarks against NumPy/SciPy

2. **Improve development processes**
   - Establish zero warnings policy with clippy
   - Add clippy checks to CI workflow
   - Formalize code review process

3. **Explore advanced optimizations**
   - Investigate GPU acceleration opportunities
   - Research differentiable programming capabilities
   - Explore distributed array operations

## Complete Features


NumRS2 has successfully implemented the following major features:

- ✅ N-dimensional array implementation with broadcasting
- ✅ Linear algebra operations with BLAS/LAPACK integration
- ✅ Matrix decompositions (SVD, QR, LU, Cholesky, Schur)
- ✅ Eigenvalue calculations
- ✅ Polynomial functions and interpolation
- ✅ Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) implementation
- ✅ Sparse matrix support
- ✅ SIMD support for vectorized operations
- ✅ Parallel computation with workload-adaptive scheduling
- ✅ Mathematical and statistical functions
- ✅ Modern random number generation with thread safety
- ✅ Special functions (erf, gamma, Bessel functions)
- ✅ Array comparison operations
- ✅ Shape manipulation operations
- ✅ Array serialization/deserialization
- ✅ Masked arrays for handling missing data
- ✅ Matrix library with special matrices
- ✅ Memory-mapped arrays for large datasets
- ✅ Memory layout optimization for cache efficiency
- ✅ Custom memory allocators for numerical workloads

## Contribution Opportunities


If you're interested in contributing to NumRS2, here are some areas where help would be appreciated:

1. **Testing**: Implementing property tests and reference tests for special functions and FFT operations
2. **Benchmarking**: Creating comprehensive benchmarks comparing NumRS2 to NumPy
3. **Documentation**: Writing docstring examples and creating example notebooks
4. **Performance**: Exploring GPU acceleration and other hardware optimizations
5. **Tools**: Developing development tools like clippy checks and CI enhancements

Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on how to contribute.