Thanks very much for your hard work and dedication to the field. I'm eternally grateful :)
Karthik On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 12:23:05 PM UTC-4, Pascal Lamblin wrote: > > Dear users and developers, > > After almost ten years of development, we have the regret to announce > that we will put an end to our Theano development after the 1.0 release, > which is due in the next few weeks. We will continue minimal maintenance > to keep it working for one year, but we will stop actively implementing > new features. Theano will continue to be available afterwards, as per > our engagement towards open source software, but MILA does not commit to > spend time on maintenance or support after that time frame. > > The software ecosystem supporting deep learning research has been > evolving quickly, and has now reached a healthy state: open-source > software is the norm; a variety of frameworks are available, satisfying > needs spanning from exploring novel ideas to deploying them into > production; and strong industrial players are backing different software > stacks in a stimulating competition. > > We are proud that most of the innovations Theano introduced across the > years have now been adopted and perfected by other frameworks. Being > able to express models as mathematical expressions, rewriting > computation graphs for better performance and memory usage, transparent > execution on GPU, higher-order automatic differentiation, for instance, > have all become mainstream ideas. > > In that context, we came to the conclusion that supporting Theano is no > longer the best way we can enable the emergence and application of novel > research ideas. Even with the increasing support of external > contributions from industry and academia, maintaining an older code base > and keeping up with competitors has come in the way of innovation. > > MILA is still committed to supporting researchers and enabling the > implementation and exploration of innovative (and sometimes wild) > research ideas, and we will keep working towards this goal through other > means, and making significant open source contributions to other projects. > > Thanks to all of you who for helping develop Theano, and making it > better by contributing bug reports, profiles, use cases, documentation, > and support. > > -- Yoshua Bengio, > Head of MILA > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "theano-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to theano-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
