Sounds good. I will start reading about GRU / GoogleNet and start from there :) Will probably ask a lot of questions here :) Thanks
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Wang Wei <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mohit, > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Wang Wei, > > Thanks for quick response and sharing with the next release cycle. > > I would be interested in: > > 1) Getting up to speed on machine learning algorithms part ( so feed > > forward networks or RNN etc) > > > For feed forward networks, SINGA has provided layers for implementing > AlexNet (imagene2012 paper), VGG (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.1556.pdf). > We need to implement some other layers to support the training of GoogleNet > (http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4842). > For RNN, http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ is a good > application to work on. Both LSTM and GRU are on our plan. > > I would suggest you to work on GRU and GoogleNet firstly. > You can follow the vanilla rnn example > http://singa.apache.org/docs/rnn.html > to implement GRU. > > 2) Maybe looking into hdfs as input or output sources > > > We are going to use HDFS for storing large training datasets. > It has not yet been decided. Maybe some in-memory storage would be > considered. > > > 3) Python bindings? > > > This is to create some wrappers for the Layer, NeuralNet, etc classes. Then > users can use python scripts to run the SINGA functions. > For example, after training, you can load the model parameters to extract > features by passing the data through the network using python scripts. > > But right now, want to start by taking something very simple. > > So far, I have been able to build singa and run CIFAR example locally. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Wang Wei <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Mohit, > > > > > > Thanks for your interest in SINGA. > > > > > > Attached is a schedule for our second release. > > > If you are interested in any topic/feature, then we can discuss in > detail > > > on the development. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Wei Wang > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> I am new to C++ and deep learning.. > > >> But want to learn both. > > >> How do I get started in contributing to singa. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Mohit > > >> > > >> "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get > > it. > > >> There is no other secret of success." > > >> -Socrates > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mohit > > > > "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get > it. > > There is no other secret of success." > > -Socrates > > > -- Mohit "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success." -Socrates
