Microsoft releases the next version of Cognitive Toolkit for deep learning read more at here www.spinonews.com/index.php/item/1411-microsoft-releases-the-next-version-of-cognitive-toolkit-for-deep-learning
Microsoft has released an updated version of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a system for deep learning that is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search relevance on CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs.
Deep learning tools that Microsoft engineers used to build its human-like speech recognition engine, as well as consumer products like Skype Translator and Cortana, are now available for public use.
Microsoft says the beta version of the Cognitive Toolkit is not only faster than previous incarnations, but it is also beats out competing deep learning toolkits – especially when crunching large datasets across multiple machines.
The latest version of the toolkit, which is available on GitHub via an open source license, includes new functionality that lets developers use Python or C++ programming languages in working with the toolkit. With the new version, researchers also can do a type of artificial intelligence work called reinforcement learning.
The team that developed the Microsoft toolkit says the ability to work across multiple servers is a key advantage over other deep learning toolkits, which can see suboptimal performance and accuracy when they start tackling bigger datasets. Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit has built-in algorithms to minimize such degradation of computation.
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit can easily handle anything from relatively small datasets to very, very large ones, using just one laptop or a series of computers in a data center. It can run on computers that use traditional CPUs or GPUs.
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