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Don't forget Deeplearning4j! https://deeplearning4j.org/ https://deeplearning4j.org/

by vonnik 10y ago

mindcrime 10y ago
I've been doing a lot of stuff with DL4J lately and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. The API seems very sane, it's very flexible, but yet it's easy to get a basic network up and running. The documentation is pretty good and there are a lot of videos from Adam up on Youtube showing off aspects of it. And it has native support for running on Spark with iterative parameter averaging, etc. I honestly wonder why DL4J doesn't get more love... I'm guessing it's just the halo effect of being associated with "Java" which is no longer cool with the hipster crowd.
- vonnik 10y ago
  Thanks for the kind words. Please let us know if there's anything we can improve. The community's active here: https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j Why doesn't DL4J get more love? It's partially a Java/Python thing. A lot of research, maybe most, is being done in Python, even if that isn't ideal when you scale on a cluster. So we built a couple ways to smooth the workflow between Python and the JVM: Model Import from Keras (and TensorFlow and Theano) https://deeplearning4j.org/model-import-keras https://deeplearning4j.org/model-import-keras Keras API for Deeplearning4j (WIP) https://github.com/crockpotveggies/dl4j-examples/tree/keras-examples/dl4j-keras-examples https://github.com/crockpotveggies/dl4j-examples/tree/keras-... DL4J is the only DL library built by a startup without the backing of a major tech company or university. Google's pouring many millions of dollars into TensorFlow marketing, Udacity, etc. Microsoft and Amazon are backing CNTK and MxNet respectively. All those libs are loss leaders to get companies onto a vendor's public cloud, where they'll charge for the DL workloads.

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Don't forget Deeplearning4j! https://deeplearning4j.org/ https://deeplearning4j.org/

by vonnik 10y ago

Don't forget Deeplearning4j! https://deeplearning4j.org/ https://deeplearning4j.org/

mindcrime 10y ago
I've been doing a lot of stuff with DL4J lately and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. The API seems very sane, it's very flexible, but yet it's easy to get a basic network up and running. The documentation is pretty good and there are a lot of videos from Adam up on Youtube showing off aspects of it. And it has native support for running on Spark with iterative parameter averaging, etc. I honestly wonder why DL4J doesn't get more love... I'm guessing it's just the halo effect of being associated with "Java" which is no longer cool with the hipster crowd.
- vonnik 10y ago
  Thanks for the kind words. Please let us know if there's anything we can improve. The community's active here: https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j Why doesn't DL4J get more love? It's partially a Java/Python thing. A lot of research, maybe most, is being done in Python, even if that isn't ideal when you scale on a cluster. So we built a couple ways to smooth the workflow between Python and the JVM: Model Import from Keras (and TensorFlow and Theano) https://deeplearning4j.org/model-import-keras https://deeplearning4j.org/model-import-keras Keras API for Deeplearning4j (WIP) https://github.com/crockpotveggies/dl4j-examples/tree/keras-examples/dl4j-keras-examples https://github.com/crockpotveggies/dl4j-examples/tree/keras-... DL4J is the only DL library built by a startup without the backing of a major tech company or university. Google's pouring many millions of dollars into TensorFlow marketing, Udacity, etc. Microsoft and Amazon are backing CNTK and MxNet respectively. All those libs are loss leaders to get companies onto a vendor's public cloud, where they'll charge for the DL workloads.