Well, I definitely would like to continue using Theano and be able to contribute and merge code after MILA lab abandons it's repository.
суббота, 30 сентября 2017 г., 0:02:56 UTC+3 пользователь Thomas написал: > > On behalf of the PyMC3 community -- thanks for all the hard work. A shame, > Theano is still leading in many areas compared to other packages like > TensorFlow (e.g. graph optimizations). > > Is no one here interested in carrying on maintenance and development of > this amazing package? > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Fariz Rahman <farizr...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Thanks for years of hard work on behalf of the Keras community. >> >> >> On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 9:53:05 PM UTC+5:30, Pascal Lamblin >> wrote: >> >>> Dear users and developers, >>> >>> After almost ten years of development, we have the regret to announce >>> that we will put an end to our Theano development after the 1.0 release, >>> which is due in the next few weeks. We will continue minimal maintenance >>> to keep it working for one year, but we will stop actively implementing >>> new features. Theano will continue to be available afterwards, as per >>> our engagement towards open source software, but MILA does not commit to >>> spend time on maintenance or support after that time frame. >>> >>> The software ecosystem supporting deep learning research has been >>> evolving quickly, and has now reached a healthy state: open-source >>> software is the norm; a variety of frameworks are available, satisfying >>> needs spanning from exploring novel ideas to deploying them into >>> production; and strong industrial players are backing different software >>> stacks in a stimulating competition. >>> >>> We are proud that most of the innovations Theano introduced across the >>> years have now been adopted and perfected by other frameworks. Being >>> able to express models as mathematical expressions, rewriting >>> computation graphs for better performance and memory usage, transparent >>> execution on GPU, higher-order automatic differentiation, for instance, >>> have all become mainstream ideas. >>> >>> In that context, we came to the conclusion that supporting Theano is no >>> longer the best way we can enable the emergence and application of novel >>> research ideas. Even with the increasing support of external >>> contributions from industry and academia, maintaining an older code base >>> and keeping up with competitors has come in the way of innovation. >>> >>> MILA is still committed to supporting researchers and enabling the >>> implementation and exploration of innovative (and sometimes wild) >>> research ideas, and we will keep working towards this goal through other >>> means, and making significant open source contributions to other >>> projects. >>> >>> Thanks to all of you who for helping develop Theano, and making it >>> better by contributing bug reports, profiles, use cases, documentation, >>> and support. >>> >>> -- Yoshua Bengio, >>> Head of MILA >>> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "theano-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to theano-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "theano-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to theano-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
