macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mlpacklocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install mlpackMacPorts ports tree · math/mlpack/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew / rank 5438
Install mlpack with Homebrew, MacPorts, apt, dnf
Scalable C++ machine learning library. Version 4.8.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-25. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install libmlpack-dev.
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Linux
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install libmlpack-devDebian stable package indexes · libmlpack-dev · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install mlpack-binFedora Rawhide package metadata · mlpack-bin · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
overview
Package summary
Scalable C++ machine learning library
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mlpack_adaboost
- mlpack_approx_kfn
- mlpack_bayesian_linear_regression
- mlpack_cf
- mlpack_dbscan
- mlpack_decision_tree
- mlpack_det
- mlpack_emst
- mlpack_fastmks
- mlpack_gmm_generate
- mlpack_gmm_probability
- mlpack_gmm_train
- mlpack_hmm_generate
- mlpack_hmm_loglik
- mlpack_hmm_train
- mlpack_hmm_viterbi
- mlpack_hoeffding_tree
- mlpack_image_converter
- mlpack_kde
- mlpack_kernel_pca
- mlpack_kfn
- mlpack_kmeans
- mlpack_knn
- mlpack_krann
- mlpack_lars
- mlpack_linear_regression
- mlpack_linear_svm
- mlpack_lmnn
- mlpack_local_coordinate_coding
- mlpack_logistic_regression
- mlpack_lsh
- mlpack_mean_shift
history
Project history and usage
mlpack is an open-source C++ machine-learning library whose published history traces back to an original inception in 2007 and a public late-2011 release. The 2013 JMLR paper by Ryan R. Curtin, James R. Cline, N. P. Slagle, William B. March, Parikshit Ram, Nishant A. Mehta, and Alexander G. Gray presented MLPACK as a scalable, multi-platform C++ library with a simple API for new users and high-performance flexibility for expert users.
Project history
The project grew into a broader scientific-computing library and community. A 2018 OpenReview workshop paper described mlpack as emphasizing speed and flexibility and implementing a wide variety of machine-learning algorithms. The 2023 JOSS paper for mlpack 4 marked a major technical milestone: a fast, header-only C++ library release with authorship spanning the expanded contributor community.
How it is used
In practice mlpack is used either as a C++ library, commonly by including `<mlpack.hpp>` and linking against Armadillo, or through command-line programs and bindings for Python, Julia, Go, and R. Its own README describes the project as a machine-learning analogue to LAPACK and as a "swiss army knife" for machine-learning researchers, while the homepage names Armadillo, ensmallen, and cereal as core foundations. In package-manager ecosystems it occupies the intersection of scientific C++ development library and installed algorithm CLI suite, with Homebrew exposing many `mlpack_*` executables for common methods such as k-means, PCA, nearest-neighbor search, random forests, regression, and preprocessing.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:image
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mlpack_adaboost | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_approx_kfn | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_bayesian_linear_regression | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_cf | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_dbscan | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_decision_tree | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_det | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_emst | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_fastmks | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_gmm_generate | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_gmm_probability | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_gmm_train | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_hmm_generate | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_hmm_loglik | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_hmm_train | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_hmm_viterbi | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_hoeffding_tree | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_image_converter | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_kde | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_kernel_pca | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_kfn | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_kmeans | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_knn | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_krann | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_lars | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_linear_regression | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_linear_svm | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_lmnn | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_local_coordinate_coding | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_logistic_regression | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_lsh | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_mean_shift | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_nbc | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_nca | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_nmf | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_pca | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_perceptron | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_preprocess_binarize | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_preprocess_describe | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_preprocess_imputer | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_preprocess_one_hot_encoding | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_preprocess_scale | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_preprocess_split | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_radical | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_random_forest | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_range_search | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_softmax_regression | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlpack_sparse_coding | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version4.8.0
manager updated2026-06-25
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mlpack |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.8.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://www.mlpack.org |
| Repository | https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack |
| Last updated | 2026-06-25T13:37:55+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
libmlpack-dev 4.6.0-1
intuitive, fast, scalable C++ machine learning library (development libs)
sudo apt install libmlpack-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 4 dependencies
- 2 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
Debian apt95%
mlpack-bin 4.6.0-1
intuitive, fast, scalable C++ machine learning library (binaries)
sudo apt install mlpack-bin- Section: science
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 5 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
Debian apt95%
mlpack-doc 4.6.0-1
intuitive, fast, scalable C++ machine learning library (documentation)
sudo apt install mlpack-doc- Section: doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: mlpack
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
Debian apt95%
python3-mlpack 4.6.0-1
intuitive, fast, scalable C++ machine learning library (Python bindings)
sudo apt install python3-mlpack- Section: python
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 10 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
Ubuntu apt95%
libmlpack-dev 4.3.0-2build1
intuitive, fast, scalable C++ machine learning library (development libs)
sudo apt install libmlpack-dev- Section: universe/libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 6 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
Ubuntu apt95%
mlpack-bin 4.3.0-2build1
intuitive, fast, scalable C++ machine learning library (binaries)
sudo apt install mlpack-bin- Section: universe/science
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 7 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
Ubuntu apt95%
mlpack-doc 4.3.0-2build1
intuitive, fast, scalable C++ machine learning library (documentation)
sudo apt install mlpack-doc- Section: universe/doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: mlpack
- 2 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
Ubuntu apt95%
python3-mlpack 4.3.0-2build1
intuitive, fast, scalable C++ machine learning library (Python bindings)
sudo apt install python3-mlpack- Section: universe/python
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 9 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
dnf95%
mlpack-bin 4.7.0-5.fc45
Command-line executables for mlpack (machine learning library)
sudo dnf install mlpack-bin- License: BSD-3-Clause AND Apache-2.0 AND (MIT OR Unlicense)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 9 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
dnf95%
mlpack-devel 4.7.0-5.fc45
Development headers for mlpack (C++ machine learning library)
sudo dnf install mlpack-devel- License: BSD-3-Clause AND Apache-2.0 AND (MIT OR Unlicense)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 9 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
dnf95%
mlpack-licenses 4.7.0-5.fc45
Licenses and information files for mlpack (machine learning library)
sudo dnf install mlpack-licenses- License: BSD-3-Clause AND Apache-2.0 AND (MIT OR Unlicense)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
dnf95%
mlpack-python3 4.7.0-5.fc45
Python 3 bindings for mlpack (C++ machine learning library)
sudo dnf install mlpack-python3- License: BSD-3-Clause AND Apache-2.0 AND (MIT OR Unlicense)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mlpack
- 14 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
MacPorts95%
mlpack
sudo port install mlpack- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlpack
source trail
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