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Re:Torch7 – Scientific computing for LuaJIT by cr4zy on Sunday June 22, 2014 @05:06PM (#7929213)
I found https://github.com/BVLC/caffe to be 20 to 40x faster for image classification when comparing with Overfeat, which uses Torch - YMMV (The type of BLAS you use makes a gigantic difference. MKL was 2x faster than ATLAS and 5x faster than OpenBLAS). Caffe also has a more active community and cleaner code IMO.
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Re:Torch7 – Scientific computing for LuaJIT by smhx on Sunday June 22, 2014 @10:26PM (#7929901)
caffe definitely grew in popularity very quickly, and it does a narrow set of tasks very well, but I dont agree that the code is cleaner (in fact I think the opposite), and I dont see the design to be particularly broad-minded (i.e. generic neural networks, or a general scientific computing framework).
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