Re: Guidelines for pre-trained ML model weight binaries (Was re: Where should we put machine learning model parameters?)

[Jack Hill]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023, Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU 
System distribution. wrote:

> Just to be precise on llama, what I proposed was to include the port of
> Facebook code to CPP, (llama.cpp, see ticket 62443 on guix-patches),
> which itself has a license.
>
> The weight themselves indeed do not have a license. You can only
> download them through torrents because they were leaked. For this model
> in particular, we can't include them in Guix indeed (also because of
> their sheer size).
>
> The other case I evoked and one that is more mature is the case of VOSK
> audio recognition, which model binaries have an Apache license (you can
> find them here: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models

One more case to consider: rnnoise, which is already packaged in Guix. If 
the licence filed is to be believed the weights are bsd3. For how they are 
created, see the `TRAINING-README` file in the source. That procedure 
produced `rnn_data.{c,h}` files which are present in the outputs of `guix 
build -S rnnoise`.

Best,
Jack