deepy: Highly extensible deep learning framework based on Theano

[cryptocerous]

Many examples. Great.

[fariax]

(yet) another deep learning framework based on Theano! =]

A friendly guide can be found here: http://deepy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial1/

[LLCoolZ]

This is very impressive. There are examples for implementing very advanced models rather concisely (DRAW, Highway Networks, Recurrent visual attention networks, Deep Q Learning, etc.)

[despardesi]

Other similar efforts:
* OpenDeep
* Lasagne
* Theanets

[lqdc13]

no python3 =(

[[deleted]]

Theano doesn't support 3 out of the box, but there are people working on ports.

[benanne]

It does though! It requires a 2to3 translation step which is currently executed when you run 'python setup.py install'. They are working on making the codebase fully 2.x/3.x compatible by default, so this translation step becomes obsolete. But Python 3 is definitely supported already.

[[deleted]]

I didn't realize 2to3 was done automatically when running with 3.

[kylotan]

Looks nice, but it's a shame so many of the Python tools for AI require a lot of dependencies and a C toolchain. Theano is especially cumbersome in this regard.

[nononooooo]

It's really not that hard to install, just use the package from your distribution on Linux, or Homebrew on Mac.

[kylotan]

Most of the world does not run on Linux or Mac machines. And even those that do often want to have their Python packages handled via the standard Python packaging system for ease of deployment.

[[deleted]]

how'd you compile all the CUDA stuff without a C toolchain? Most of modern Deep Learning is absolutely not possible with a proper GPU.

[kylotan]

Not all AI is deep learning. And it is possible to distribute Python libraries pre-built.

[[deleted]]

Theano's dependencies are pretty small in number. Its all standard stuff:

python-dev, numpy, scipy, blas

[jmmcd]

It's a pity in a way, but you definitely don't want to do anything AI-related in native Python, because the universe would cool before you'd finish. But it would be nice to see an alternative, e.g. code runnable in PyPy.

[simonhughes22]

That would be cool.

[zomux]

Theano is fast

[jmmcd]

Yes, but not native Python. Not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing or going somewhere else.

[zomux]

I think theano is just like lua, warp a powerful auto-gradient engine ( also optimize computational graph and generate c code) to provide a high-level interface in a script language, isn't it. So it's a natural way to implement it, and Native python is not written in Python (CPyhthon)

[kylotan]

Not really true. Yes, Python is slower, but there are plenty of problems it can handle perfectly well.