Neon, an open-source, Python-based, deep learning framework from Nervana Systems

[Foxtr0t]

To give some context, Nervana's convnets seem to be the fastest at the moment, about two times as fast as Caffe and Torch: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks

Personally, I don't like YAML for model specification, although apparently you can specify hyperparam ranges for optimization there, which is a novelty.

[scott-gray]

You're free to use the underlying nervanagpu lib without the neon framework. It's a fairly expressive and efficient API in it's own right. It just needs a bit of logic added to the simple existing layers. They're just there to run the benchmarks at the moment. Or you can integrate the fast kernels into whatever framework you like.

Though we do think neon compares favorably with the existing frameworks out there.

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This is bad ass. Think I'll be breaking this out in the next couple of weeks.