Apache MXNet is an open-source deep learning

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framework, used to train and deploy

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s. It is scalable, allowing for fast model training and supports a flexible

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and multiple

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, Go, R, Scala,

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). The MXNet

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and can scale to multiple

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as well as multiple machines. It was co-developed by Carlos Guestrin at University of Washington (along with GraphLab).

Features

Apache MXNet is a scalable deep learning framework that supports deep learning models, such as;

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s (CNNs) and

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networks (LSTMs).

Scalable

MXNet can be distributed on dynamic

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using a

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parameter server (based on research at Carnegie Mellon University, Baidu, and Google). With multiple GPUs or CPUs the framework approaches linear scale.

Flexible

MXNet supports both imperative and symbolic programming. The framework allows developers to track, debug, save checkpoints, modify Hyperparameter (machine learning), hyperparameters, and perform early stopping.

Multiple languages

MXNet supports Python, R, Scala, Clojure, Julia, Perl,

and JavaScript for front-end development, and C++ for back-end optimization.

Portable

Supports an efficient deployment of a trained model to low-end devices for inference, such as mobile devices (using Amalgamation), Internet of things devices (using AWS Greengrass), serverless computing (using AWS Lambda) or Container (virtualization), containers. These low-end environments can have only weaker CPU or limited memory (RAM), and should be able to use the models that were trained on a higher-level environment (GPU based cluster, for example).

Cloud Support

MXNet is supported by public cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Amazon has chosen MXNet as its deep learning framework of choice at AWS. Currently, MXNet is supported by Intel, Baidu, Microsoft, Wolfram Research, and research institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, the University of Washington, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

References

{{Apache Software Foundation Deep learning software Free statistical software Apache Software Foundation, MXNet Cross-platform free software Software using the Apache license