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I thought Theano was the first real deep learning implementation. What is the difference between that and tensorflow ?
by zitterbewegung 7y ago
I thought Theano was the first real deep learning implementation. What is the difference between that and tensorflow ?
- jhj 7y agoThe first would be SN/Lush from circa 1987, of which Torch (from NEC Research), and then PyTorch are direct descendants in a lot of ways. https://leon.bottou.org/projects/lush https://leon.bottou.org/projects/lush
- codingslave 7y agoTrue, I was more so referencing first implementation to see wide scale adoption. But maybes there some holes in my narrative...
- danieldk 7y agoActually, Torch (2002) is older than Theano (2007). Moreover, both were already used widely in the research community. Tensorflow was actually late in the grand scheme of things, but replaced Theano and to some extend Torch (which used Lua for its public API). I think it's fairer to say that Tensorflow is the first implementation that had wide adoption outside academia.