Machine Learning with Elixir and Livebook

A repo for exploring machine learning with Elixir and Livebook. The included docker-compose file will start up a Docker container running the latest version of Livebook. Data will be synced to the local notebooks directory.

See below for links to many notebooks that can be imported and opened from the Livebook UI.

Elixir Libraries

Nx

Nx - Numerical Elixir, "a multi-dimensional tensors library for Elixir with multi-staged compilation to the CPU/GPU"

Official notebooks for Nx

Scholar

Scholar - Traditional machine learning tools built on top of Nx, including classification, regression, and clustering

Official notebooks for Scholar

Axon

Axon - Uses Nx for building neural networks in Elixir. Includes high-level API's for creating and training models

Official notebooks for Axon

Bumblebee

Bumblebee - provides pre-trained Neural Network models on top of Axon

Official notebooks for Bumblebee

Example Phoenix integrations

Explorer

Explorer - tool for exploring one-dimensional data and two-dimensional dataframes

Official notebooks for Explorer

EXLA

EXLA - Google's XLA compiler/backend for Nx. Supports just-in-time compilation for GPU and TPU

Vocabulary

• model - "In general, any mathematical construct that processes input data and returns output" (reference)
• neural networks - A model containing at least one hidden layer. The input is passed through each layer before generating an output. (reference)
• machine learning - a program or system that uses input data to train a model so that it can make useful predictions about new data (reference)
• GPU - graphics processing unit
• TPU - tensor processing unit

Elixir-Related Articles

• Axon: Deep Learning in Elixir - April 2021
• Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released! - January 2022
• Nx for Absolute Beginners - March 2022
• LiveBook inside Hugging Face Spaces - March 2023

General Machine Learning Reference

• Google Machine Learning Glossary
• Google Machine Learning Courses