Installation¶

The core package, colearn, contains only the MachineLearningInterface and a simple driver that implements the Collective Learning Protocol. To install only the core package:

pip install colearn

To make collective learning easier to use we have defined extra packages with helpers for model development in Keras and Pytorch.

To install with Keras/Pytorch extras:

pip install colearn[keras]
pip install colearn[pytorch]

To install both the Keras and Pytorch extras use:

pip install colearn[all]

To run stand-alone examples:

 python -m colearn_examples.ml_interface.run_demo

For more examples see the Examples Page

Installing From Source¶

Alternatively, to install the latest code from the repo:

Download the source code from github:

git clone https://github.com/fetchai/colearn.git && cd colearn

Create and launch a clean virtual environment with Python 3.7. (This library has currently only been tested with Python 3.7).

pipenv --python 3.7 && pipenv shell

Install the package from source:
```
pip install -e .[all]
```

Run one of the examples:

python colearn_examples/ml_interface/pytorch_mnist.py

If you are developing the colearn library then install it in editable mode so that new changes are effective immediately:

pip install -e .[all]

Running the tests¶

Tests can be run with:

tox

Documentation¶

To run the documentation, first install mkdocs and plugins:

pip install .[docs]

Then run:

mkdocs serve