Initializing computational network from a DSL in an External File

[sirinath]

Can you add support to initialise computation from a external file using something similar to:

• NoFlo graph file format
• FBP Network Protocol
• Flow-Based Programming

[hobofan]

What use case do you have in mind?

I doubt it fits the scope of Collenchyma which only provides single operations, not connected graphs.
I think what you are looking for would be a crate one abstraction level higher and could indeed use Collenchyma for the single operations, but I think Collenchyma should stay agnostic of this.

[sirinath]

You can have it as 3 level:

• Low level - single operations
• Mid level - graph operation by composing single operations
• High level - nested graph operations by composing graph operation, single operations and nested graph operations

Maybe you can factor this into different projects or have it here, but should interop with the ML framework.

Current level it is very verbose to use and more coding overhead and complexity to the developer.