Keras vs PyTorch

#1

Post by Raf_ » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 9:25 AM UTC

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#2

Post by Raf_ » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 9:27 AM UTC

Author here - the article compares Keras and PyTorch as the first Deep Learning framework to learn. It explores the differences between the two in terms of ease of use, flexibility, debugging experience, popularity, and performance, among others.

If you have experience with learning, or teaching Deep Learning with PyTorch or Keras, we’d love to hear your thoughts about them.

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#3

Post by gjmveloso » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 9:39 AM UTC

Why not mxnet[1]? Or even better, Gluon[2]?

[1]: http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org

[2]: https://gluon.mxnet.io

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#4

Post by entropie » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 9:43 AM UTC

Raf_ wrote: post #2

Author here - the article compares Keras and PyTorch as the first Deep Learning framework to learn. It explores the differences between the two in terms of ease of use, flexibility, debugging experience, popularity, and performance, among others. If you have experience with learning, or teaching Deep Learning with PyTorch or Keras, we’d love to hear your thoughts about them.

Article timeouts.

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#5

Post by stared » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 9:45 AM UTC

gjmveloso wrote: post #3

Why not mxnet[1]? Or even better, Gluon[2]? [1]: http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org [2]: https://gluon.mxnet.io

(Another author here). It is explicitly explained in the text. :)

tl;dr: not nearly as popular (which means: less tutorials, less documentation, less examples, less integration with other systems, less community support for development or discussions)

Sure, all frameworks do have some goal and once one is confident in DL, may be a good choice. As you see from the plots there - MXNet is very fast for some applications.

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#6

Post by stared » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 9:47 AM UTC

entropie wrote: post #4

Raf_ wrote: post #2

Author here - the article compares Keras and PyTorch as the first Deep Learning framework to learn. It explores the differences between the two in terms of ease of use, flexibility, debugging experience, popularity, and performance, among others. If you have experience with learning, or teaching Deep Learning with PyTorch or Keras, we’d love to hear your thoughts about them.

Article timeouts.

It seems to be a HN hug of death.

Though, as I see - it loads, though sometimes with a considerable delays (5-10 sec).

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#7

Post by t27 » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 9:56 AM UTC

Google webcache link if the main page doesnt load (archive.org had some rendering issues)

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#8

Post by Raf_ » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 10:01 AM UTC

t27 wrote: post #7

Google webcache link if the main page doesnt load (archive.org had some rendering issues) https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

Thanks, appreciate it!

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#9

Post by gaius » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 10:06 AM UTC

As Keras has pluggable back-ends it's the obvious choice (I am using CNTK with mine)

Re: Keras vs PyTorch

#10

Post by nightcracker » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 10:19 AM UTC

I can definitely second Keras - it was the third NN library I tried and the one I actually got working the fastest producing results.