Computational Network Toolkit
Production-quality, Open Source, Multi-machine, Multi-GPU,
Highly efficient RNN training,
Speech, Image, Text
Production-quality, Open Source, Multi-machine, Multi-GPU,
Highly efficient RNN training,
Speech, Image, Text
For mission critical AI research, we believe efficiency and performance are important criteria. CNTK was designed for peak performance for not only CPUs but also single-GPU, multi-GPU, and multi-machine-multi-GPU scenarios. Additionally, Microsoft’s 1-bit compression technique dramatically reduced communication costs -- enabling highly scalable parallel training on a large number of GPUs spanning multiple machines.
CNTK is highly flexible. Arbitrary computation graphs are easy to create from a high-level description language and most training parameters are easily configurable. Popular network types like FNN, CNN, LSTM, and RNN are fully supported with state of the art parallel training performance. A full suite of training algorithms (like AdaGrad, RmsProp, etc…) are built into the toolkit. You can easily experiment with a wide range of architectures and training recipes with no long compilation cycles involved.
In addition to a wide variety of built-in computation nodes, CNTK provides a plug-in architecture allowing users to define their own computation nodes. So if your workload requires special customization, CNTK makes that easy to do. Readers are also fully customizable allowing support for arbitrary input formats.
Speech Recognition
Machine Translation
Image Recognition
Image Captioning
Text Processing and Relevance
Language Understanding
Language Modeling
More advanced users can download and build the source code for the ultimate flexibility and extensibility.
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