Machine Learning in Elixir

Taking Advantage of the Machine Learning Ecosystem

You may have noticed that the title of this chapter is a bit ironic given it appears in a book titled Machine Learning in Elixir. After all, isn’t the Nx ecosystem a rehash of the Python machine learning ecosystem? In many ways, projects like Axon in the Elixir Nx ecosystem model themselves after their counterparts in the Python ecosystem—with sensible deviations and complete break-offs in design where necessary. The breaks from Python are deliberate, but that doesn’t mean Elixir Nx completely shies away from the Python ecosystem. From the beginning, Nx was designed for flexibility. Rather than depend entirely on projects with a popular Python front-end like TensorFlow or PyTorch, Nx implements ...