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Yes, the mailing list is available at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shark-project-user.
Multiple support channels are available for the Shark machine learning library:
Whenever you are reporting a bug, you should briefly scan over our below bug reporting guidelines to help our developers in resolving the issue:
Check the bug database if your problem has already been reported.
Provide information on the Shark version you are using and the platform you are working on. To this end, you can execute the program Version that is part of the default Shark installation (located in the bin/ sub-folder of your installation directory). It will give you an output similar to:
How to prepare and issue a new Shark release
Application examples
Show page sourceShark Machine Learning Library Ver. 3.0.0
Official release: false
Platform: Mac OS
Compiler: GNU C++ version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)
C++ Std. Lib.: GNU libstdc++ version 20070719
Boost Ver.: 1.44.0
Build Type: Release
OpenMP Enabled: false
You can directly copy this information into your bug report.
If the problem is related to the early stages of using CMake to configure the Shark installation (such as not finding the Boost installation), please checkout the latest Shark version and then generate debug output from the CMake configuration run by first deleting any CMakeCache.txt in your shark source/main directory, and then issuing in your build directory (may be the source directory) rm -rf CMakeCache.txt; cmake /path/to/shark/main/dir -DBoost_DEBUG=1. Please attach the output of this to your bug report if indicated, and possibly the contents of your CMakeCache.txt.
Try to provide us with a minimal test case for reproducing the problem.
Please click on Getting started.
Please first see the dedicated installation troubleshooting page. If that didn’t help, see the above section Where can I get help if my problem is not covered by the available documentation or this FAQ?.
Apple decided not to distribute recent versions of gcc with Xcode anymore. Instead the clang compiler is distributed, which is also supported by shark. To solve the problem, either install a new version of gcc using macports or use the clang compiler, for example by issuing
export CC=clang export CXX=clang++
before using cmake. Note however that clang does not support OpenMp yet.
No, root/administrator access is not required. However, if you want to install the library to a central location (such as /usr/lib/ on Linux) you will of course need write access to that directory. Otherwise, simply select local prefixes for both the Shark installation as well as any other dependencies you may need to install (e.g., Boost, ATLAS, etc.).
Please just ignore them.
The solution is to add NOMINMAX to the list of compiler macro declarations.
Please see the troubleshooting site on Getting Shark to find Boost for how to provide hints to the Shark CMake configuration about the location of Boost.
There is a concise “README.txt” file in the doc/ subdirectory intended for people who do not have access to the documentation while building the documentation. Also, there is a tutorial on the documentation system, including building the documentation, located here. Finally, there will be a separate documentation package available for download on the download page.
Shark relies on Boost. You must have Boost installed and explicitly link against the required Boost libraries. The library boost_serialization is always used, some programs require boost_system, boost_filesystem, and/or boost_program_options. So if you are using gcc, adding -lboost_serialization -lboost_system -lboost_filesystem -lboost_program_options solves the problem. Please see the installation guide as well as the installation troubleshooting page for additional information on how to build, find, and link to Boost. Also have a look at the auto generated CMake files for projects using Shark.
We are in the process of porting all relevant features to the new version of Shark. If you miss a certain feature, post a feature inquiry to the mailing list or a feature request to the Sourceforge feature request page. However we are sure that most of the functionality is there.
Shark is a native C++ library designed for development and real-world application of state-of-the-art machine learning and optimization algorithms. The library has a history of more than 10 years of successful applications. It is actively supported and still growing. We are continuously extending and improving the algorithms in various domains of machine learning and computational intelligence.
Flexibility and speed are the main design criteria. We think that its flexibility and extensibility make Shark stand out from other libraries.
It is mostly self-contained and offers computational intelligence techniques such as single- and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and neural networks as well as kernel-based machine learning methods and classical optimization techniques in a coherent framework. This is unique.
Shark is an object-oriented software library and to use it requires knowledge in C++ programming. If a graphical user interface is important for you, you may go for other machine learning software (or feel free to contribute such a front-end for Shark).
Shark implements a lot of powerful algorithms not available in any other machine learning library, of course in particular methods based on the research of the developers.
Some highlights:
