This is a fork of PDNN. Check the project webpage for all documentation.

I created this fork for for my Master Thesis project about Deep Learning. This Fork is now mainly focussed on DNN/SDA.

Here is a list of changes I made until so far:

• Migrated from Python 2 to Python 3
• Migrated to Theano 0.8
• Added support for BloscPack dumped numpy arrays. BloscPack is typical 200 times faster and 3 times smaller than Pickle/Gzip based on 1 GB (250M float32 np.arange) numpy array. BloscPack files are supposed to have *.blp and the associated label vector file *.blp.labels. See examples for an updated example for converting MNIST to Bloscpack, and DNN/CNN using it.
• SDA/DNN/CNN arguments are now dumped to stderr (for checking what is passed)
• SDA intermediate output tmp save path/filename is now different from DNN. This avoids temp state of SDA (in case SDA crashes) is then used for DNN fine tuning.
• Code saving intermediate state (model save step param) for Neural Network (file2nnet, nnet2file) is using High performance BloscPack instead of (slow) JSON. Because Bloscpack can only save 1 array in 1 file (to my knowledge, let me know if this is possible), it now saves data in a directory.
• Adaptive Learning Rate Schedule now quit afters max_fail epochs after the lowest validation error (Learning Rate Schedule starting with "A" this is undocumented yet in original PDNN but avail, check learn_rates.py).
• DNN: When a new validation low is reached, new final config/net is dumped. So when we end we always have the best config saved.
• Tmp network save is now also done using BloscPack to speed things ip.