Is the SG19 meeting happening?

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 at 16:15, Michael Wong via SG19 <sg19_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Hi all, this is the SG19 Machine Learning meeting that will focus on
> graphs. Please see Phil's email update from Feb 5th on the split papers and
> the attachment. Thanks Phil.
>
> *Paper*
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> *Status*
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> *Pages*
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> D9901 Overview & Introduction
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> Active
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> 7
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> D9902 Algorithms
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> Active
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> 17
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> D9903 Operators
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> Active
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> 6
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> D9904 Views
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> Active
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> 11
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> D9905 Graph Container Interface
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> Active
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> 10
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> D9906 Graph Containers
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> Active
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> 5
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> D9907 Adaptors
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> Future
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> D9908 Background and Terminology
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> Future
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> We can also have an update on stats.
> Are there any other suggested topics?
>
> We have finalized sg19 vice chairs Phil Ratzloff and Andrew Lumsdaine.
>
> We will have an SG14 meeting the day before on Wednesday to review Graph:
> Topic: SG14 monthly
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> Thank you.
>
>
> Michael Wong is inviting
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> 1. Opening and introductions
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> The ISO Code of conduct:
> https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/store/en/PUB100397.pdf
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> IEC Code of Conduct:
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> The WG21 Practices and Procedures and Code of Conduct:
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> https://isocpp.org/std/standing-documents/sd-4-wg21-practices-and-procedures
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> 1.1 Roll call of participants
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> 1.2 Adopt agenda
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> 1.3 Approve minutes from previous meeting, and approve publishing
> previously approved minutes to ISOCPP.org
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> 1.4 Action items from previous meetings
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> 2. Main issues (125 min)
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> 2.1 General logistics
>
> Meeting plan, focus on one paper per meeting but does not preclude other paper
> updates.
>
> 2024 planning
> C++23 and C++26 status
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>
> * Jan 11, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
> * Feb 8, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
> * Mar 14, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Cancelled due to Tokyo 3-18-23
> * Apr 11, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Stats
> * May 9, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
> * June 13, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Embedded; St.louis 6-24-29
> * July 11, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Stats
> * Aug 15, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
> * Sep 12, 2024 02:00 PM ET: CPPCON Sept 15-20 so canceled
> * Oct 10, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Stats
> * Nov 14, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Cancelled Wroclaw F2F
> * Dec 12, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
>
>
> ISO meeting status
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> future C++ Std meetings
>
> 2.2 Paper reviews
> Review BSI Graph feedback:
> As Oliver (Rosten) said "The basic premise is important, and it would be
> fantastic to have support for graphs in the standard."
>
> The main items identified were:
> Oliver:
> - This paper is long and incomplete, it has lots of details which I think
> to be irrelevant, however things that are definitely relevant are missing
> from the paper - for example definition of graph - since people have
> different ideas. We need to add a mathematical perspective to the paper.
>
> - The structure of the paper completely changed in the new revision, so
> now it’s hard to understand what and why they have done
>
> - Another missing part is discussion of graph invariants
>
> Tom (Deakin): There’s a big missing part in “Prior art” part, GraphBLAS (
> https://graphblas.org) eminently.
>
> Some other things to add:
>
> 1. The electrical circuit example needs more explanation, and I think this
> will highlight some deep issues around representing things which are
> seemingly trivially graphs, as graphs in practice. In what sense is a
> bog-standard resistor directed? I assume the reason that the graph is
> directed is because current has a sign and in an undirected graph it
> becomes ambiguous which way the current is flowing (also you may want
> components like diodes). But the directed representation also has issues:
> "can current flow from 'Vdd' to 'n0'?" should be immediately answerable
> from the properties of Vdd and its edges. There are other ways to represent
> an electrical circuit. One is as a directed graph but with incident edges
> recorded - but iiuc, this is excluded from the latest version of the paper.
> Alternatively, one could have a mathematical object, the name of which I
> actually don't know: it looks like an undirected graph, but where each
> partial edge has additional, unique, end-point data, as well as the common
> weight. Things like this are the reason why I think we need a broader group
> to look at this proposal (i.e. beyond SG19) and if we possibly can we
> should involve someone from the mathematics community. Otherwise there's a
> real danger we end up missing important insights.
>
> 2. My comment about the structure of the paper changing was a reference to
> previous comparisons with boost::graph. I'm sure these were in an earlier
> version, or am I misremembering? Either way, it would be very helpful to
> have a proper discussion of e.g. the move away from visitors.
>
> 3. Re. the definition of a graph, there needs to be a proper discussion
> about whether the paper's definition of graph is what some authors call a
> multigraph and whether it does/does not include loops. These things are
> mentioned, in passing, when introducing algorithms, but terminology needs
> to be properly established.
>
> 4. I think we're trying to do too much in one go in this paper. I think a
> great first step would be to build on mdspan and try to standardize (or at
> least understand) what might reasonably be called an unstructured span.
> This could be represented as a vector of vectors or as a vector with some
> auxiliary storage indicating where the partitions fall. The point is that
> an unstructured span, with the right invariants, is an adjacency list. If
> we can understand unstructured span and its desirable api, I think this
> will be incredibly valuable guidance for what a standardized graph
> container might look like.
>
> 5. IIUC, this paper excludes pure connectivity graphs. These are
> incredibly helpful and, if I've understood correctly that they are not
> supported, would be a major omission. Another good reason, imo, to start
> with unstructured span!
>
> 6. I'm not convinced by the load api. We don't have a load api for vector
> etc. Moreover, would it not be preferable to have appropriate constructors?
>
>
> 2.2.1: ML topics
>
> 2.2.1.1 Graph Proposal Phil Ratsloff et al
>
> Latest paper:
>
> Here’s a link to the paper (different than the previous paper reviewed).
> There are some additional updates I’m planning on making before the
> meeting.
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OpH-xxRri7tJTtJJIZTYmSHkkrZJkdBwm9zJ7LqolfQ/edit?usp=sharing
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> P1709R3:
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kLHhbSTX7j0tPeTYECQFSNx3R35Mu3xO5_dyYdRy4dM/edit?usp=sharing
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QkfDzGyfNQKs86y053M0YHOLP6frzhTJqzg1Ug_vkkE/edit?usp=sharing
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> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2119r0.html>
>
> <
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/175wIm8o4BNGti0WLq8U6uZORegKVjmnpfc-_E8PoGS0/edit?ts=5fff27cd#heading=h.9ogkehmdmtel
> *>*
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> Array copy semantics:
> array copy-semantics paper P1997 "Relaxing Restrictions on Arrays",
> https://wg21.link/p1997
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> Stats feedback:
>
> P2376R0
> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p2376r0.pdf>
> Comments
> on Simple Statistical Functions (p1708r4): Contracts, Exceptions and
> Special cases Johan Lundberg
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> 2.2.1.2 Reinforcement Learning Larry Lewis Jorge Silva
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> Reinforcement Learning proposal:
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> 2.2.1.3 Differential Calculus:
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/175wIm8o4BNGti0WLq8U6uZORegKVjmnpfc-_E8PoGS0/edit?ts=5fff27cd#heading=h.9ogkehmdmtel
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> 2.2.1.4: Stats paper
>
> P2681R0
> <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p2681r0.pdf>
> More
> Stats Functions Richard Dosselmann, Michael Wong
> Current github
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> https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/475
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> https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/979
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> Stats review Richard Dosselman et al
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> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p1708r4.pdf
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> Feedback from Johan Lundberg and Oleksandr Korval
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> https://isocpp.org/files/papers/D2376R0.pdf
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> P1708R3: Math proposal for Machine Learning: 3rd review
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> PXXXX: combinatorics: 1st Review
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> *> std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p1708r2
> <http://std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p1708r2>*
> *> above is the stats paper that was reviewed in Prague*
> *> http://wiki.edg.com/bin/view/Wg21prague/P1708R2SG19
> <http://wiki.edg.com/bin/view/Wg21prague/P1708R2SG19>*
> *>*
> *> Review Jolanta Polish feedback.*
> *> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2119r0.html
> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2119r0.html>*
>
>
> 2.2.1.4: Matrix paper
>
> 2.2.3 any other proposal for reviews?
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> 2.3 Other Papers and proposals
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> P1416R1: SG19 - Linear Algebra for Data Science and Machine Learning
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IKUNiUhBgRURW-UkspK7fAAyIhfXuMxjk7xKikK4Yp8/edit#heading=h.tj9hitg7dbtr
>
> P1415: Machine Learning Layered list
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1elNFdIXWoetbxjO1OKol_Wj8fyi4Z4hogfj5tLVSj64/edit#heading=h.tj9hitg7dbtr
>
> 2.2.2 SG14 Linear Algebra progress:
> Different layers of proposal
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1poXfr7mUPovJC9ZQ5SDVM_1Nb6oYAXlK_d0ljdUAtSQ/edit
>
> 2.5 Future F2F meetings:
>
> 2.6 future C++ Standard meetings:
> https://isocpp.org/std/meetings-and-participation/upcoming-meetings
>
> None
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> 3. Any other business
>
> New reflector
>
> http://lists.isocpp.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/sg19
>
> Old Reflector
> https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/#!newtopic/sg19
> <https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/sg14>
>
> Code and proposal Staging area
>
> 4. Review
>
> 4.1 Review and approve resolutions and issues [e.g., changes to SG's
> working draft]
>
> 4.2 Review action items (5 min)
>
> 5. Closing process
>
> 5.1 Establish next agenda
>
>
> 5.2 Future meeting
> * Jan 11, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph DONE
> * Feb 8, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
> * Mar 14, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Cancelled due to Tokyo 3-18-23
> * Apr 11, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Stats
> * May 9, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
> * June 13, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Embedded; St.louis 6-24-29
> * July 11, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Stats
> * Aug 15, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
> * Sep 12, 2024 02:00 PM ET: CPPCON Sept 15-20 so cancelled
> * Oct 10, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Stats
> * Nov 14, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Cancelled Wroclaw F2F
> * Dec 12, 2024 02:00 PM ET: Graph
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