Build machine learning programs in Rust from the first install to a shipped binary, using aprender, a Rust framework that runs the whole model lifecycle from one command. You'll set up and check the apr tool, run a small language model on your own laptop with no GPU, and train regression and classification models with one shared estimator trait. You'll look inside model files, measure what int8 and int4 quantization cost, and put a model behind an OpenAI-compatible server that curl and OpenCode can talk to. Then you'll compile a model into a standalone executable, embed a trained model in a CLI with include_bytes!, build a trail-status classifier from raw data to HTTP API, and see aprender at work in an open-source application. For developers who are new to machine learning in Rust.

Introduction to Rust ML Framework
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Introduction to Rust ML Framework
This course is part of Agentic Machine Learning in Rust Specialization

Instructor: Alfredo Deza
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What you'll learn
Install and verify the apr CLI, then run a small language model locally with no GPU
Train, score, inspect and quantize models with aprender's shared estimator pattern
Serve a model over an OpenAI-compatible API and ship it as a compiled Rust program or HTTP service
Skills you'll gain
- Model Training
- MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
- Applied Machine Learning
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Model Deployment
- Classification Algorithms
- API Design
- Model Optimization
- Model Evaluation
- Machine Learning
- Data Validation
- Package and Software Management
- Application Deployment
- Software Installation
- LLM Application
- Regression Analysis
- Large Language Modeling
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