I guess we need a FAQ for "Why is there no support for deep learning/Will
there be support for deep learning in scikit-learn?" which will expand on "Will
you add GPU support"
<http://scikit-learn.org/stable/faq.html#will-you-add-gpu-support>?

If you agree, I'll raise an issue!

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Gael Varoquaux <
gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote:

> Hi Arasu,
>
> Deep learning requires a rich vocabulary to define an architecture, and
> the use of GPUs for computing. Neither of these fit in the design
> constraints of scikit-learn. Hence deep learning is currently
> out-of-scope for scikit-learn. That's not a problem, there are excellent
> existing deep-learning libraries.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gael
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 06:30:23PM +0530, Arasu Arun wrote:
> > Hello Mentors!
>
> > I'm interested in deep learning and wanna contribute to scikit-learn and
> try
> > out for GSoC next summer. I was wondering if scikit-learn is looking to
> expand
> > its neural nets package.
>
> > If so, could you please point me to some related tasks that I can start
> > contributing on?
>
> > Thank you!
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