[Discussion] MxNet C# Binding

[deepakkumar1984]

.Net has been through lots of enhancements in last year for data science type of tasks (like Notebooks support, Dataframes), and it is started to be adopted as another language for the C# lovers for doing deep learning tasks. SciSharp community has been working towards binding tensorflow library and I am part of that group decidated my time in building .NET binding for MxNet library with Gluon support which is completed.

Status of project so far:

MxNet - All API and Modules implemented
Gluon - Completed
Gluon-CV - 50% Completed
Keras-MxNet - 60% Completed

For future development but project sttucture skeletonized
Gluon-TS
Gluon-NLP
AutoGluon
SkLearn-MxNet

I would like to open a discussion if this project can be included with MxNet codebase or atleast have a link from the MxNet main website to gain some visibility, which might help be add more contributing dev, testing and making it more robust.

References

Link to the project: https://github.com/tech-quantum/MxNet.Sharp

[szha]

@deepakkumar1984 Thanks for bringing this up. if you are still interested in contributing this, maybe you can consider proposing them in either 1.8 (#18800) or 2.0 on the master branch

[deepakkumar1984]

Thanks @szha The MxNet and Gluon in C# is completed and I have started with documenting it: https://mxnet.tech-quantum.com/

But due to COVID and financial condition I didn't get time to work on these. I can only plan for 2.0 if the situation improves.