Turicreate

Turicreate is an open-source Python library for scalable machine learning and data analysis. It originated as GraphLab Create, developed by Turi for large-scale ML tasks, and was acquired by Apple in 2016. The project provides a high-level toolkit that enables building models on tabular data, images, and text with concise, Pythonic code.

Its core data structures, SFrame and SArray, support out-of-core processing and analytics on datasets that do not fit in memory. The library emphasizes a simple workflow: load data, engineer features, train models, and evaluate results using a compact API that abstracts many low-level details.

Turicreate offers APIs for a broad range of tasks, including classification, regression, clustering, and recommender systems. It includes specialized toolkits for image classification and object detection, text processing, and feature engineering. Image workflows can leverage pre-trained networks as feature extractors to accelerate development, especially on CPU-only hardware.

Models trained in Turicreate can be deployed within Python applications or exported to Core ML for integration with iOS and macOS apps (export_coreml). The library runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows, and is implemented in C++ with a Python interface to balance performance and usability.

Turicreate is maintained as open-source software with documentation and tutorials available through its official website.