QUESTION: Possibility of using the lib to compile with no_std for embedding

[antimora]

I recently discovered your library, and I think it's great. I have a requirement to compile NN with no_std for inferencing in an embedded setting. I am wondering if this is possible with dfdx or how easy it would be to modify

[coreylowman]

Thanks for reaching out! This is an interesting one. I haven't worked with no_std before, but looking at https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/intro/no-std.html#overview, it seems like at minimum we'd have to swap to using the alloc crate for allocations & Rc. Also all the nn serialization code uses std::io, which I'm not seeing in core?

Also depend on rand, rand_distr, and matrixmultiply which all do support no_std.

Overall this seems plausible and definitely a good use case for dfdx to support.

[antimora]

Thank you for answering and creating a task to support this feature. It would be greatly appreciated by me and the greater Rust community. Your library would be an excellent addition to this growing list of libs: https://lib.rs/no-std.

We close this ticket as answered.