Apple Releases Turi ML Software as Open Source

Apple last week released Turi Create, an open source package that it says will make it easy for mobile app developers to infuse machine learning into their products with just a few lines of code. "You don't have to be a machine learning expert to add recommendations, object detection, image classification, image similarity, or activity classification to your app," the company says in the GitHub description for Turi Create. From a desktop computer running macOS, Linux, or Windows, Turi Create allows users to apply several machine learning algorithms, including classifiers (like nearest neighbor, SVM, random forests); regression (logistic regression, boosted decision trees); graph analytics (PageCount, K-Core decomposition, triangle count); clustering (K-Means, DBSCAN); and topic models. The software automates the application of the algorithms to a variety of input data, including text, images, audio, video, and sensor data. Users can work with large data sets with a single machine, Apple says.