Machine Learning Framework in C

Development Note

1. Implements Arena Allocator: A better alternative for dynamic memory allocation as compared to malloc / free for this usecase.

2. Implements a Psuedo Random Number Generator (PRNG) to be used in ML calculatons.

[18 Jan 2025] 3. make the repository compiler ready: declare include guards in the header files

the code can be compiled using:

clang -fsanitize=address -g -o main.out main.c arena.c matrix.c random.c OS_MEMORY.c
./main.out

[21 Jan 2025] 4. Matix multiplication on CPU with loop optimizations

5. for training model: Mnist dataset (handwritten digits)

why is python used in this project?

• Python was used to extract the Mnist dataset from the tensorflow_datasets.
• the processed data files (.mat) is stored in /datasets/output/*
• to generate the test and training data files do the following:

cd dataset
source .venv/bin/activate
python main.py