Hi Thushan,

Assuming your are running examples, did you try CNN for MNIST data? What is
the accuracy?

You can use DL4J Gitter chat room [1] for quick responses from devs.

[1] https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j

Regards,
CD

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Thushan Ganegedara <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yes, there are few use list (Git hub and google group). I will inquire
> about this in user lists.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Thushan for the update.
>>
>> In addition to you digging into the code, can you also inquire on the
>> poor performance from the DL4J user list (if there's one exist)?
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Thushan Ganegedara <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Please find the update regarding DL4J testing
>>>
>>> *Poor Accuracy*
>>> I have been testing DL4J extensively with *MNIST and Iris* datasets
>>> (Small and Full). However, I was unable to get a reasonable accuracy with
>>> DL4J for the aforementioned datasets. The F1-score was around 0.02, which
>>> is very low.
>>>
>>> I tried with different settings mainly for the following attributes
>>>
>>> Weight initialization
>>> Gradient Descent
>>> Iterations
>>> Type of units: Autoencoder/RBM
>>>
>>>
>>> But none of the settings gave a reasonable accuracy. Furthermore, the
>>> predicted values for the test data usually *belong to 1 or 2 classes *(e.g.
>>> when trained on MNIST dataset, the program predict 0 and 1 only, though
>>> there are 10 possible classes)
>>>
>>> ​Also there are many reports of *poor accuracy of DL4J.* The best
>>> accuracy I could find reported was around 0.5 F1 score for MNIST, which is
>>> still very​ low. (e.g. MNIST can easily reach 0.9+ accuracy for even a
>>> basic deep network)
>>>
>>> I'm currently trying to delve in to the code for DL4J and figure out how
>>> the learning is done. I'm assuming there are some faults in the learning
>>> process which causes the algorithm to learn poorly.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Thushan Ganegedara
>>> School of IT
>>> University of Sydney, Australia
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks & regards,
>> Nirmal
>>
>> Associate Technical Lead - Data Technologies Team, WSO2 Inc.
>> Mobile: +94715779733
>> Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Thushan Ganegedara
> School of IT
> University of Sydney, Australia
>
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