Building AI units using Rust - FossAsia 2018

This talk was presented at FOSSASIA 2018.

Learn to build an end-to-end, high-performance artificial intelligence algorithm in Rust language capable of solving real-world classification problems.

Rust is a great programming language for building stable and scalable mathematical AI models which can crunch real-time data and provide human level insights. The talk focuses on covering the methods by which one can implement the state-of-the-art machine learning units in rust lang to create an end to end learning system for solving a real-world machine learning problems.

Transcript

1. Building AI units using Rust FOSSASIA SUMMIT 2018 Vigneshwer Dhinakaran | Mozilla TechSpeaker | @dvigneshwer
2. Applications & Algorithms!
3. Computer Vision - Object classification & Tracking - CNN, Selective search, R-CNN, MHT .. - Surveillance, Business usecases etc
4. Chatbots - Text Classification and Resolutions - RNN, LSTM, beam search .. - B2C, products domains!
5. Predictive Maintenance - Anomaly detection - Time-series analysis, Regression techs, Kalman filtering ... - IoT space, Monitoring Industrial machinery
6. Complex Games - Taking real world actions & optimization problems - MDP, Reinforcement learning, dynamic programming - Self driving cars, Trading engines
7. Voice Search - ASR and synthesis - Spectrograms, CTC - Content captioning, Cars/Hands-free interfaces, Home devices
9. Building ML Models
10. Building ML Models Data Collection Data Analysis Statistics Development & Training Deployment and monitoring Project Definition Modelling
11. Building an ANN Learning Algorithm Neural Network Neuron Representation Neuron Network Cost Function Back propagation
12. Rust is easy to learn!
13. Snips Uses Rust to Build an Embedded Voice Assistant
14. Speeding up crypto on Wire desktop apps https://medium.com/@wireapp/speeding-up-crypto-on-wire-desktop-apps-3ff37fc98c3f Up to 141× faster
15. Gradual adoption works.
16. 2016 -18 For the third year in a row, Rust is stackoverflow's most loved language https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
17. Friends of Rust Organizations running Rust in production. (https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html)
18. Why Rust? Freedom from Data Race conditions Strong type system High level iterators More control over memory Tools Ecosystem Welcoming Community
19. Ownership The act, state, or right of possessing something
20. Garbage Collection Heap Memory new Circle(5) new Circle(5) new Circle(5)
21. Referencing Now both bookingService and repairService hold a reference to vehicle
22. Same implementation in Rust Doesn't compile!
23. Ownership • Rust moves ownership by default • The owner has the right to destroy the thing it owns • The memory is freed as soon as the owned variable goes out of it's scope • Hence vehicle may already be destroyed at the point when it's passed to repair_service • Rust catches these errors at compile time
24. Borrowing The act, state, or right of possessing something
25. Making it work in Rust Lending things is the key!
26. Borrowing • A reference is passed without transferring ownership • One can borrow immutable (&) or mutable (&mut) but not both at the same time • Shared ownership can be achieved through special pointers with runtime checks
27. Mutability Rules • All variables are immutable by default • Only one mutable reference at a time ( But as many immutable &’s as you want ) • Mutable references block all other access (The &mut must go out of scope before using other &’s )
28. Building an ANN using Rust
29. ANN in Rust Preparing Dataset Algorithm and Arch. Building Model Testing and Productionalizatio
30. Value Addition
31. Value Addition
32. Interesting?
33. Summary
34. When should you use Rust? • Rewrite modules of your code that are computationally heavy (Complex math optimizations etc) • For accessing the hardware(ex :- IOT applications, device drivers, GPU’s etc) • Implementing advance concurrency paradigms
35. What does Rust have to offer? • Modern C/C++ replacement • Memory Safety without Garbage Collection • No runtime needed • Rich Typesystem • Strong Functional Programming influence • Improving your toolkit
36. Thanks! @dvigneshwer dvigneshwer@gmail.com https://tinyurl.com/FOSSASIA18