Candle: Minimalistic Machine Learning in Rust
Last Updated on November 6, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Ulrik Thyge Pedersen
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) company Hugging Face has recently introduced Candle, a new minimalistic machine learning (ML) framework designed for the Rust programming language. This innovative framework has already gained significant attention, amassing 7.8 thousand stars and 283 forks on GitHub.
Hugging Face is ͏committed to expanding its ecosystem for developers to extend the reach of its 300,000 open-source machine learning models. According to Jeff Boudier, head of product and growth at the startup, “The big picture is that we’re developing our ecosyste͏m for developers and seeing a lot of traction doing it.”
This comes on ͏the heels of… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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