Steffen Rochel will introduce Gluon, a flexible new interface that pairs MXNet\u2019s speed with a user-friendly frontend. In the past, deep learning practitioners had to choose between ease of use and speed when choosing frameworks. On one side, there were symbolic frameworks like Theano and TensorFlow. These offer speed and memory efficiency but are harder to program, can be a pain to debug, and don\u2019t allow for many native language features such as basic control flow. On the other side, there are imperative frameworks like Chainer and PyTorch. They\u2019re a joy to program and easy to debug, but they can seldom compete with the symbolic code when it comes to speed.\u00a0Gluon reconciles the two, removing a crucial pain point.
\nGluon can run as a fully imperative framework. In this mode, you enjoy native language features, painless debugging, and rapid prototyping. You can also effortlessly deploy arbitrarily complex models with dynamic graphs. But when you need more performance, Gluon can also provide the speed of MXNet\u2019s symbolic API by calling down to Gluon\u2019s just-in-time compiler.
\nIn this lecture, he will provide a short review of deep learning basics, the fundamentals of Gluon, advanced models, and multiple-GPU deployments. Well show how to define neural networks through Gluon\u2019s predefined layers. He will demonstrate how to serialize models and build dynamic graphs. Finally, he will show you how to hybridize your networks, simultaneously enjoying the benefits of imperative and symbolic deep learning.<\/p>\n
WHAT?<\/strong> Steffen Rochel will introduce Gluon, a flexible new interface that pairs MXNet’s speed with a user-friendly frontend. In the past, deep learning practitioners had to choose between ease of use and speed when choosing frameworks. On one side, there were symbolic frameworks like Theano and TensorFlow. These offer speed and memory efficiency but are harder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2989,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"sic_news-types":[61,58],"class_list":["post-4516","sic_news","type-sic_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sic_news-types-migrated-en","sic_news-types-newsflash-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nDeep Learning in Apache MxNet Gluon
\nWHO?
\n<\/strong>Dr. Steffen Rochel, Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services (Amazon AI)
\nWHEN?<\/strong>
\nThursday, 2.11., 14.15-15.30,
\nWHERE?<\/strong>
\nBuilding E1 3, HS2,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"