raven

modern scientific computing for OCaml

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Raven is an ecosystem of OCaml libraries for numerical computing, machine learning, and data science. Everything you know from Python — NumPy, JAX, PyTorch, Matplotlib, Jupyter — rebuilt with type safety.

(* nx — n-dimensional arrays *)
let x = Nx.linspace float32 0. 10. 100
let y = Nx.sin x

(* rune — automatic differentiation *)
let grad_f = Rune.grad (fun x -> Rune.sum (Rune.mul x x)) x

(* brot — tokenization *)
let tokenizer = Brot.from_file "tokenizer.json" |> Result.get_ok
let ids = Brot.encode_ids tokenizer "The meaning of life is"

(* kaun — neural networks *)
let model = Kaun.Layer.sequential [
  Kaun.Layer.linear ~in_features:768 ~out_features:128 ();
  Kaun.Layer.relu ();
  Kaun.Layer.linear ~in_features:128 ~out_features:10 ();
]

(* talon — dataframes *)
let df = Talon.create [
  "name", Talon.Col.string_list [ "Alice"; "Bob"; "Charlie" ];
  "score", Talon.Col.float64_list [ 85.5; 92.0; 78.5 ];
]

(* hugin — plotting *)
let () = Hugin.(figure () |> subplot |> Plotting.plot ~x ~y |> ignore; show ())

Packages

Package

Like

What it does

nx

NumPy

N-dimensional arrays with linear algebra operations

ᚱ

rune

JAX

Automatic differentiation and functional transformations

ᚲ

kaun

Flax

Neural networks and training

ᚨ

brot

HF Tokenizers

Fast, HuggingFace-compatible tokenization

ᛃ

talon

Polars

Fast and elegant dataframes with type-safe operations

ᛞ

hugin

Matplotlib

Publication-quality plotting

ᛈ

quill

Jupyter + IPython

Interactive REPL and markdown notebooks

ᚠ

fehu

Gymnasium

Reinforcement learning environments

ᛋ

sowilo

OpenCV

Differentiable computer vision

Getting started

opam install raven

This installs the full ecosystem. You can also install only what you need — e.g. opam install kaun for neural networks, or opam install nx for just arrays.

Add to your dune file:

(executable
 (name main)
 (libraries raven))

See the installation guide for system dependencies and editor setup.

Support

Building a scientific computing ecosystem takes sustained effort. Sponsorships help us ship JIT compilation, distributed training, better developer tooling, and production deployment through MirageOS.

Support Raven →

Thanks to our sponsors Ahrefs and Tarides.

License

ISC