Agent-Based Modeling with Nx - Paweł Długosz | Code BEAM Europe 2024

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Agent-Based Modeling with Nx - Paweł Długosz | Code BEAM Europe 2024

This talk was recorded at Code BEAM Europe in October 2024. If you’re curious about our upcoming event, check https://codebebeameurope.com

Nx library opens a world of numerical computations for the BEAM which natively is one of its weak spots. There are already some successful production systems which use machine learning that are written in Elixir. My goal is to explore non-ML applications for this technology. I want to show you a case study of how I redesigned an Agent-Base Modeling framework using tensor algebra with Nx to run it efficiently on GPU. We’ll go through a few key algorithms and look at what approach we need to take to express them in a different paradigm.

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