Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) Framework

A Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) Framework is a Deep Learning framework that ...

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be written in C++.
• Example(s):
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  • CNTK, 2.0 (2017-06-01).
  • http://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/releases
• Counter-Example(s):
  • MXNet.
  • TensorFlow.
• See: Keras, Deep Learning System.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cognitive_Toolkit Retrieved:2017-7-4.
  • Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, previously known as CNTK and sometimes styled as The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, is a deep learning framework developed by Microsoft Research. Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit describes neural networks as a series of computational steps via a directed graph.

2017

• https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK
  • QUOTE: The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (https://cntk.ai), is a unified deep-learning toolkit that describes neural networks as a series of computational steps via a directed graph. In this directed graph, leaf nodes represent input values or network parameters, while other nodes represent matrix operations upon their inputs. CNTK allows to easily realize and combine popular model types such as feed-forward DNNs, convolutional nets (CNNs), and recurrent networks (RNNs/LSTMs). It implements stochastic gradient descent (SGD, error backpropagation) learning with automatic differentiation and parallelization across multiple GPUs and servers. CNTK has been available under an open-source license since April 2015. It is our hope that the community will take advantage of CNTK to share ideas more quickly through the exchange of open source working code.

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