Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
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Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
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Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#2quoted performance numbers on multiple GPUs leave other frameworks in the dust. where's the catch?
Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#3quoted performance numbers on multiple GPUs leave other frameworks in the dust. where's the catch?
looks like it isn't very scriptable so far, with the config files being made manually until "future releases"
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/dongyu/CNTK-Tu...
Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#4This is great news - I was looking at Tensorflow the other day, but on Windows / OSX it doesn't take advantage of my GPUs. For my desktop I was stuck as my new 3440x1440 monitor doesn't, for the time being, work with Xorg's intel driver.
Hopefully this is a viable alternative, I would love to see a online course in machine learning leveraging this. I found http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/dongyu/CNTK-Tu... on the homepage which looks well put together to start off
Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#5Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#6quoted performance numbers on multiple GPUs leave other frameworks in the dust. where's the catch?
Yes it looks like they have architected for low communication overhead and true parallelization when you have multiple GPUs. 1:4 gives 1:2 on Torch and Caffe, and 1:4 = 1:4 on CNTK.
No idea what the catch is :)
Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#7quoted performance numbers on multiple GPUs leave other frameworks in the dust. where's the catch?
I was thinking the same thing, it almost looks a little too good to be true -- although it does kinda make sense given the focus on GPU-based clusters. I wonder how this compares to Baidu's warp-ctc [1]. They don't really seem to be the same thing, and maybe I'm missing something since I'm just starting to get into ML, but it seems to be conspicuously absent from this writeup.
Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#8quoted performance numbers on multiple GPUs leave other frameworks in the dust. where's the catch?
looks like it isn't very scriptable so far, with the config files being made manually until "future releases" http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/dongyu/CNTK-Tu...
"You can also use Brain Script (beta) to specify the configuration or use Python and C# (in future releases) to directly instantiate related objects."
Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#9First TensorFlow, then Baidu's Warp-CTC, and now Microsofts CNTK. It is a very, very exciting time for open source machine learning indeed.
Re: Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
#10fuck you microsoft