Project maintenance

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Project maintenance

UpstatePedro opened this issue 2 years ago · 3 comments

Hi there,

This is a really valuable project, but I'm reluctant to use it at work because it doesn't look like it is being actively maintained (the docs reference support up to Python 3.9 and PyTorch 1.11, and I don't think that's changed for a while(?)). I'm certainly not being critical because I know you're working on lots of other great open-source projects for the ML community, but it would help to understand the author's plans to maintain this project going forward before I decide whether to make heavier use of it.

Thanks again for all the valuable work you've put into this package so far!

Answer 1 · 2023-06-23T16:05:12.000Z

Hey there!
I'm afraid Signatory isn't really maintained any more.

For what it's worth, it will probably work with newer Pythons and newer PyTorchs, as long as you're willing to compile it from source. (Which is also the default installation method on Linux.)

Answer 2 · 2023-06-26T14:02:45.000Z

Hi Patrick, Thanks for your reply. It’s a real pleasure to hear from you - I’ve gotten great pleasure from reading many of your papers on the signature transform and neural DEs :) I can take a look at compiling from source for personal projects, but if the package isn’t being maintained then I don’t think it’s appropriate for use at work. Do you know of an alternative implementation that is maintained? Many thanks for your time, Piers

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Answer 3 · 2023-06-26T16:26:39.000Z

You might try either esig or iisignature. (Which were the two libraries historically superseded by Signatory.) Last I checked these were pretty slow / didn't support GPUs / didn't support autodiff though.