[pkg-lua-devel] Bug#794634: RFP: lua-torch -- A scientific computing framework for Lua(JIT)

[Balint Reczey]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : lua-torch
  Version         : No releases yet
* URL             : http://torch.ch/
* License         : BSD-3-Clause
  Programming Lang: Lua
  Description     : A scientific computing framework for Lua(JIT)
Torch is a scientific computing framework with wide support for  machine
learning algorithms. It is easy to use and efficient, thanks to an easy
and fast scripting language, LuaJIT, and an underlying C/CUDA
implementation.

A summary of core features:
    a powerful N-dimensional array
    lots of routines for indexing, slicing, transposing, ...
    amazing interface to C, via LuaJIT
    linear algebra routines
    neural network, and energy-based models
    numeric optimization routines
    Fast and efficient GPU support
    Embeddable, with ports to iOS, Android and FPGA backends