Re: GSOC 17 - Octave - Reutilization of NNET on CNN Project

[Francesco Faccio]

2017-03-28 18:18 GMT+02:00 Carnë Draug <address@hidden>:

On 22 March 2017 at 16:21, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> Since Tensorflow exposes a C++ API it
> makes a whole lot of sense to me to use this approach rather than go
> through a longer path of Octave->Python->Tensorflow->Python->Octave.

I thought the same but was told that TensorFlow C++ API is not only
quite unstable, it also only provides the computational part.  The
interesting machine learning bits are only in Python.

Carnë

Hi Carnë,

I probably was wrong on that. It seems that in TensorFlow 1.0 the C++ API has been slightly extended [1] and now it supports also the training part. 

By the way, the Python API has a lot more features, it's easier to use, better documented and it's stable. For a good student, learning how to use Pytave providing patches or fixing bugs if needed, can be a nice pre-GSoC work.

Francesco


[1]https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/cc/