Installation Guide

MLAI can be installed using either Poetry (recommended) or pip.

Prerequisites

Python 3.11 or higher
pip or Poetry

Installation with Poetry

Poetry is the recommended way to install MLAI as it manages dependencies automatically:

# Install Poetry if you don't have it
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/lawrennd/mlai.git
cd mlai

# Install dependencies
poetry install

Installation with pip

You can also install MLAI using pip:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/lawrennd/mlai.git
cd mlai

# Install in development mode
pip install -e .

Optional Dependencies

For additional functionality, you can install optional dependencies:

# For mountain car demo
pip install GPy

# For GP tutorials
pip install GPy

Verifying Installation

To verify that MLAI is installed correctly:

import mlai
print("MLAI version:", mlai.__version__)

Next Steps

After installation, check out the Quick Start Guide guide to get started with MLAI.