Matrix in Elixir

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Elixir is not the best fit for number crunching, but You might have a look at Matrex…

Matrex - A blazing fast matrix library for Elixir/Erlang with C implementation using CBLAS (Machine Learning)

Could not wait for the missing Elixir ML libraries to appear, so, I wrote one myself, taking https://github.com/sdwolfz/exlearn as a foundation. The name is Matrex and it’s super-fast (compared to pure Elixir implementations) matrix manipulation lib. Critical code is written in C using CBLAS subroutines and linked as Erlang NIFs. It’s about 50-5000 times faster, than pure Elixir. In the repo you will find MathLab fmincg() ported to Elixir with the help of the library and logistic regression…