Re:Cognitive Toolkit beta for deep learning advances
by GrinningFool on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:57PM
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> CNTK allows to
OT pet peeve: the tech culture's distaste for pronouns has made this all too common. It doesn't even have to be a pronoun: "users", "people", "clients", etc all work -- but without it, the author is referring to a thing is never specified. That offends me as a technical person far more than pronouns ever will.
In particular, project descriptions and readmes are rife with "X allows to".
Here's the github repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK
CNTK homepage (http://www.cntk.ai/) now redirects to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/cognitive-t...
> CNTK (http://www.cntk.ai/), the Computational Network Toolkit by Microsoft Research, is a unified deep-learning toolkit that describes neural networks as a series of computational steps via a directed graph. In this directed graph, leaf nodes represent input values or network parameters, while other nodes represent matrix operations upon their inputs. CNTK allows to easily realize and combine popular model types such as feed-forward DNNs, convolutional nets (CNNs), and recurrent networks (RNNs/LSTMs). It implements stochastic gradient descent (SGD, error backpropagation) learning with automatic differentiation and parallelization across multiple GPUs and servers. CNTK has been available under an open-source license since April 2015. It is our hope that the community will take advantage of CNTK to share ideas more quickly through the exchange of open source working code.