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Quick Links

• Snorkel website
• Snorkel tutorials
• Snorkel documentation
• Snorkel community forum
• Snorkel mailing list
• Snorkel Twitter

Getting Started

The quickest way to familiarize yourself with the Snorkel library is to walk through the Get Started page on the Snorkel website, followed by the full-length tutorials in the Snorkel tutorials repository. These tutorials demonstrate a variety of tasks, domains, labeling techniques, and integrations that can serve as templates as you apply Snorkel to your own applications.

Installation

To install Snorkel, we recommend using pip:

pip install snorkel

or conda:

conda install snorkel -c conda-forge

For information on installing from source and contributing to Snorkel, see our contributing guidelines.

# [OPTIONAL] Activate a virtual environment called "snorkel"
conda create --yes -n snorkel-env python=3.6
conda activate snorkel-env

# We specify PyTorch here to ensure compatibility, but it may not be necessary.
conda install pytorch==1.1.0 -c pytorch
conda install snorkel==0.9.0 -c conda-forge

Discussion

Issues

We use GitHub Issues for posting bugs and feature requests — anything code-related. Just make sure you search for related issues first and use our Issues templates. We may ask for contributions if a prompt fix doesn't fit into the immediate roadmap of the core development team.

Contributions

We welcome contributions from the Snorkel community! This is likely the fastest way to get a change you'd like to see into the library.

Small contributions can be made directly in a pull request (PR). If you would like to contribute a larger feature, we recommend first creating an issue with a proposed design for discussion. For ideas about what to work on, we've labeled specific issues as help wanted.

To set up a development environment for contributing back to Snorkel, see our contributing guidelines. All PRs must pass the continuous integration tests and receive approval from a member of the Snorkel development team before they will be merged.

Community Forum

For broader Q&A, discussions about using Snorkel, tutorial requests, etc., use the Snorkel community forum hosted on Spectrum. We hope this will be a venue for you to interact with other Snorkel users — please don't be shy about posting!

Announcements

To stay up-to-date on Snorkel-related announcements (e.g. version releases, upcoming workshops), subscribe to the Snorkel mailing list. We promise to respect your inboxes — communication will be sparse!

Twitter

Follow us on Twitter @SnorkelML.