Ah, my apologies, I vaguely remembered reading about opencl somewhere
in the theano docs...

I stand corrected.

2014-04-07 14:42 GMT-05:00 Kyle Kastner <[email protected]>:
> Also, I think pylearn2 and theano-nets only support CUDA cards (Nvidia),
> since Teahno only supports CUDA or CPU to my knowledge. There is some
> discussion of supporting an OpenCL backend
> (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/theano-dev/NhRUhWA6xzo/lYrIIOlw4D8J),
> but I don't know whether that work was ever completed. Maybe someone else
> has a better knowledge of this.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Kyle Kastner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> You can also use the python interface to pylearn2, rather than the yaml.
>> If you are interested in examples of the python interface for pylearn2, I
>> have some examples (I greatly prefer the python interface, but to each their
>> own):
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/kastnerkyle/pylearn2-practice/blob/master/cifar10_train.py
>> shows how to build a network and test using a pylearn2 builtin dataset
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/kastnerkyle/kaggle-dogs-vs-cats/blob/master/kaggle_train.py
>> This shows how to use scikit-learn's train-test split to create training
>> and testing classes for new datasets in pylearn2 format. x and y are both
>> 2D. Rows are samples, columns are features for x. y generally needs to be a
>> "one hot" label matrix for classification, but will be a regression target
>> for RMSE/regression tasks.
>>
>> In general, it is pretty easy to wrap your data into a pylearn2 compatible
>> format, though doing "raw" input for convolutional nets can be tricky. I
>> have an example of reading pngs from Kaggle's CIFAR10 competition into
>> pylearn2 and using a convnet here:
>> https://github.com/kastnerkyle/kaggle-cifar10
>>
>> All that being said, theano-nets *can* be easier to start with for those
>> who are new to neural networks, as it is a little less roll-your-own.
>>
>> I have had success using both.
>>
>> Kyle
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Ralf Gunter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Two libraries[1,2] come to mind that can additionally support
>>> accelerators through opencl. Just take note that it can take a bit to
>>> familiarize yourself with pylearn2, especially because they seem
>>> adamant in doing everything through yaml scripts.
>>>
>>> [1] -- https://github.com/lmjohns3/theano-nets (see e.g.
>>> examples/xor-classfier.py)
>>> [2] -- http://deeplearning.net/software/pylearn2
>>>
>>> 2014-04-07 11:18 GMT-05:00 Yuxiang Wang <[email protected]>:
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > I am not entirely sure whether this is the best place to post this,
>>> > and please do excuse me if this is not the perfect list for this
>>> > question.
>>> >
>>> > Is there any python packages for neural networks for regression
>>> > (instead of classification)?
>>> >
>>> > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > -Shawn
>>> >
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