Machine Learning in Elixir

Preface

Machine learning, specifically deep learning, is constantly pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible—and it’s doing it in every industry.

Seemingly every day, a company or research group releases a new model that pushes the state of the art even further ahead. In recent years, ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, among others, have taken the world by storm, bringing artificial intelligence to the forefront and redefining what types of applications are possible.

For most of their existence, Elixir and the BEAM weren’t viable options for machine learning tooling. But the Nx ecosystem has changed that. Within this ecosystem, you can now write machine learning and numerical routines directly in Elixir and achieve performance that ...