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KMath

Could be pronounced as key-math. The Kotlin MATHematics library was initially intended as a Kotlin-based analog to Python's NumPy library. Later we found that kotlin is much more flexible language and allows superior architecture designs. In contrast to numpy and scipy it is modular and has a lightweight core. The numpy-like experience could be achieved with kmath-for-real extension module.

Publications and talks

Goal

  • Provide a flexible and powerful API to work with mathematics abstractions in Kotlin-multiplatform (JVM, JS and Native).
  • Provide basic multiplatform implementations for those abstractions (without significant performance optimization).
  • Provide bindings and wrappers with those abstractions for popular optimized platform libraries.

Non-goals

  • Be like NumPy. It was the idea at the beginning, but we decided that we can do better in terms of API.
  • Provide the best performance out of the box. We have specialized libraries for that. Need only API wrappers for them.
  • Cover all cases as immediately and in one bundle. We will modularize everything and add new features gradually.
  • Provide specialized behavior in the core. API is made generic on purpose, so one needs to specialize for types, like for Double in the core. For that we will have specialization modules like for-real, which will give better experience for those, who want to work with specific types.

Features

Current feature list is here

  • Algebra

    • Algebraic structures like rings, spaces and fields (TODO add example to wiki)
    • Basic linear algebra operations (sums, products, etc.), backed by the Space API.
    • Complex numbers backed by the Field API (meaning they will be usable in any structure like vectors and N-dimensional arrays).
    • Advanced linear algebra operations like matrix inversion and LU decomposition.
  • Array-like structures Full support of many-dimensional array-like structures including mixed arithmetic operations and function operations over arrays and numbers (with the added benefit of static type checking).

  • Expressions By writing a single mathematical expression once, users will be able to apply different types of objects to the expression by providing a context. Expressions can be used for a wide variety of purposes from high performance calculations to code generation.

  • Histograms Fast multi-dimensional histograms.

  • Streaming Streaming operations on mathematical objects and objects buffers.

  • Type-safe dimensions Type-safe dimensions for matrix operations.

  • Commons-math wrapper It is planned to gradually wrap most parts of Apache commons-math library in Kotlin code and maybe rewrite some parts to better suit the Kotlin programming paradigm, however there is no established roadmap for that. Feel free to submit a feature request if you want something to be implemented first.

Planned features

  • Messaging A mathematical notation to support multi-language and multi-node communication for mathematical tasks.

  • Array statistics

  • Integration Univariate and multivariate integration framework.

  • Probability and distributions

  • Fitting Non-linear curve fitting facilities

Modules


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Core classes, algebra definitions, basic linear algebra

Maturity: DEVELOPMENT

Features:

  • algebras : Algebraic structures: contexts and elements
  • nd : Many-dimensional structures
  • buffers : One-dimensional structure
  • expressions : Functional Expressions
  • domains : Domains
  • autodif : Automatic differentiation

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ND4J NDStructure implementation and according NDAlgebra classes

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Multi-platform support

KMath is developed as a multi-platform library, which means that most of the interfaces are declared in the common source sets and implemented there wherever it is possible. In some cases, features are delegated to platform-specific implementations even if they could be provided in the common module for performance reasons. Currently, the Kotlin/JVM is the primary platform, however Kotlin/Native and Kotlin/JS contributions and feedback are also welcome.

Performance

Calculation performance is one of major goals of KMath in the future, but in some cases it is impossible to achieve both performance and flexibility.

We expect to focus on creating convenient universal API first and then work on increasing performance for specific cases. We expect the worst KMath benchmarks will perform better than native Python, but worse than optimized native/SciPy (mostly due to boxing operations on primitive numbers). The best performance of optimized parts could be better than SciPy.

Repositories

Release artifacts are accessible from bintray with following configuration (see documentation of Kotlin Multiplatform for more details):

repositories {
    maven("https://dl.bintray.com/mipt-npm/kscience")
}

dependencies {
    api("kscience.kmath:kmath-core:0.2.0-dev-3")
    // api("kscience.kmath:kmath-core-jvm:0.2.0-dev-3") for jvm-specific version
}

Gradle 6.0+ is required for multiplatform artifacts.

Development

Development builds are uploaded to the separate repository:

repositories {
    maven("https://dl.bintray.com/mipt-npm/dev")
}

Contributing

The project requires a lot of additional work. The most important thing we need is a feedback about what features are required the most. Feel free to create feature requests. We are also welcome to code contributions, especially in issues marked with waiting for a hero label.