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> On Mar 22, 2018, at 11:11 PM, Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:49 PM sandeep krishnamurthy < > sandeep.krishn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello MXNet Community, >> >> Along with Lai, Karan and other MXNet contributors, I am working on adding >> MXNet backend for Keras. Currently supporting around ~70% of Keras APIs >> across CNNs and RNNs. >> https://github.com/deep-learning-tools/keras/tree/keras2_mxnet_backend >> >> We wanted to gather the community feedback on the proposal for including >> this keras-mxnet package as a submodule in Apache MXNet. This will enable >> providing the Keras interface for MXNet users. MXNet users can choose Keras >> interface for building their Neural Networks in Symbolic Mode (Ex: >> mx.keras). >> >> *Advantages:* >> >> 1. Keras is widely popular interface that many DL practitioners are >> familiar. By including keras interface within MXNet natively, we enable >> many users to use MXNet with 0 learning curve. >> >> 2. Adding as submodule and exposing natively within MXNet pip package, >> would greatly enhance user experience and get more users as compared to >> releasing a fork repository independently. >> >> 3. Why submodule? - Helps in easily managing with patching the latest >> parent keras-team/keras developments and releases. Thereby helping us >> provide users the core keras experience. Operational management. >> >> 4. Other minor advantages - Operational maintenance, pip, CI and quality >> control. >> >> Please do share your comments on the proposal. >> >> Best, >> Sandeep >> >> *Note: *We tried merging with keras-team/keras and we created a PR >> <https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/9291> as well. However, due to >> multiple design incompatibility challenges, we need significant re-work on >> MXNet Module, KVStore, Optimizers to address keras-team design concerns. >> Since, we are adhering to keras API interface exposed to users, we are >> planning release on the forked repo for now. More details on the design >> challenges and workaround tried - >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vn5ip5MzCKcN29KCCnwjB2d59y-VevdLrdn_eNd3nE4/edit?usp=sharing >>
