Cross-posted with permission from the blog of Shogun‘s Heiko Strathmann, who recently defended his Ph.D. — congrats, Heiko!
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Shogun now supports Intel MKL
Over the last few weeks and months, a few things came together that make Shogun both a lot easier to install, and a lot faster!
EDIT: While I was writing this post, Viktor leaked some of the results. I should work faster 
basic runtime performance comparison of various models on benchmark dataset of the new @ShogunToolbox release vs @scikit_learn #sklearnpic.twitter.com/FJeANfmo0e
— Viktor Gal (@vikgl) December 1, 2017
Easier installation: conda integration & windows
Thanks to Dougal, who did an awesome job of integrating shogun with conda, installing Shogun is now as easy as
conda install -c conda-forge shogun |
Viktor recently made this work under windows as well (not easy! yet only C++ interface, but this will change soon). Check his StackOverflow post if you want to give it a try. After the years and years of cryptic installation procedures these things hopefully make Shogun more accessible for new users. Thanks again Dougal!
Faster Shogun: Lapack, Eigen3 and Intel MKL
How did we make Shogun faster? Let’s take a little peak under the hood!