Re: Working on nnet package

[Francesco Faccio]

Hi!

I started adding a few tests in dividerand.m and I realized that it didn't work properly (probably Matlab has changed a lot of features in the last few years). 

Although Matlab documentation is not very exhaustive, I tried to make the code more compatible, I added some tests and improved the documentation. 

You can find the commit here:
https://bitbucket.org/Francesco_Faccio/octave-nnet/commits/a064c3b83c994d07aaecc20131765c35e89549f0

Am I working in the right way? If so, I'm going to do the same for the other functions in the package.

Best regards,

Francesco Faccio

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Da: Francesco Faccio
Inviato: giovedì 15 dicembre 2016 22.51.15
A: address@hidden
Cc: Francesco Faccio
Oggetto: Working on nnet package

 

Dear all,

I would like to keep contributing in Octave development and one of my greatest passions at this moment is Neural Networks.

Since the nnet package doesn't have a maintainer and a lot of functions in the package are obsolete, the first changes I made were to write a "make check" option in the Makefile and to remove some deprecated functions.

Here you can find these preliminary changes:

https://bitbucket.org/Francesco_Faccio/octave-nnet/commits/all

I think that the next steps (not necessarily in this order) could be to:
- modify the test suite (which fail) in order to make the tests work without deprecated functions 
- write the "documentation build" in the Makefile
- write some more tests inside the m-files
- make the functions which already exist more Matlab compatible
- write some new functions in the package

I would really appreciate to be guided with these few steps in order to start working in the right direction.

Thank you and best regards,

Francesco Faccio