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mila-iqia / blocks

blocks

A Theano framework for building and training neural networks

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2Mentions
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1.2KGitHub stars
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A Theano framework for building and training neural networks

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Observed mentions: 2015-03-29 08:55:15 UTC to 2015-03-29 11:02:29 UTC.

012015-03-29 08:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-29 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 29, 08:002015-03-29 09:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-29 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 29, 09:002015-03-29 10:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-29 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-29 11:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-29 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 29, 11:00

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github.com/benanne/Lasagne * RNN, https://github.com/pascanur/trainingRNNs * RNN, https://github.com/pascanur/GroundHog (Razvan Pascanu, KyungHyun Cho, Caglar Gulcehre) * RNN + CTC, https://github.com/shawntan/rnn-experiment (Shawn Tan) * RNN + CTC, https://github.com/shawntan/theano-ctc (Shawn Tan) * RNN + CTC, https://github.com/rakeshvar/rnn_ctc * RNN + CTC, OCR, https://github.com/rakeshvar/chamanti_ocr, https://github.com/rakeshvar/chamanti3_ocr * RNN, https://github.com/gwtaylor/theano-rnn * LSTM, RBM, DBN, https://github.com/kratarth1203/NeuralNet * RBM, https://github.com/benanne/morb * Q-learning, https://github.com/spragunr/deep_q_rl * Deep Generative Models, https://github.com/dpkingma/nips14-ssl * RNN, agents, “bricks”: https://github.com/bartvm/blocks * NTM, https://github.com/shawntan/neural-turing-machines/ * RL + CNN, https://github.com/brian473/neural_rl * DRAW RNN, https://github.com/jbornschein/draw And this is far from complete, there are countless more examples. Just search on GitHub. I just filtered out the ones which interest me (which at least have RNNs/LSTMs or some other interesting things).
In Keras: Theano-Based Deep Learning Library
I know of 4 projects for deep learning based on Theano. Keras, Blocks and Lasagne all seem to share the same goal of being more libraries than framework. You can use only one part (e.g. a Layer implementation, training algo) without having to pull in everything : https://github.com/bartvm/blocks https://github.com/benanne/Lasagne Then there is pylearn2, which look more like a framework and seems to be a good candidate for becoming the GPU-accelerated scikit-learn : https://github.com/lisa-lab/pylearn2 I have started using blocks and did some tests with pylearn2. Anybody with more experience want to share the strength/weaknesses of each of those projects ?
In Keras: Theano-Based Deep Learning Library

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