Deep Learning

It’s holiday time and that means parties and getting together with friends. Bringing a baked good or dessert to a gathering is a time honored tradition. But what if this year, you could take it to the next level? Everyone brings actual food. But with the help of Deep Learning, you can bring something completely different - you can bring the image of baked good! I’m not talking about just any old image that someone captured with a camera or created with a pen and paper. I’m talking about the computer itself creating. This image would be never before seen, totally unique, and crafted by the creative process of the machine. ...

This is an introduction to the high level Clojure API for deep learning library MXNet. The module API provides an intermediate and high-level interface for performing computation with neural networks in MXNet. To follow along with this documentation, you can use this namespace to with the needed requires: (ns docs.module (:require [clojure.java.io :as io] [clojure.java.shell :refer [sh]] [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.eval-metric :as eval-metric] [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.io :as mx-io] [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.module :as m] [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.symbol :as sym] [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.ndarray :as ndarray])) Prepare the Data In this example, we are going to use the MNIST data set. If you have cloned the MXNet repo and cd contrib/clojure-package, we can run some helper scripts to download the data for us. ...

I’m delighted to share the news that the Clojure package for MXNet has now joined the main Apache MXNet project. A big thank you to the efforts of everyone involved to make this possible. Having it as part of the main project is a great place for growth and collaboration that will benefit both MXNet and the Clojure community. Invitation to Join and Contribute The Clojure package has been brought in as a contrib clojure-package. It is still very new and will go through a period of feedback, stabilization, and improvement before it graduates out of contrib. ...

This is the beginning of a series of blog posts to get to know the Apache MXNet Deep Learning project and the new Clojure language binding clojure-package MXNet is a first class, modern deep learning library that AWS has officially picked as its chosen library. It supports multiple languages on a first class basis and is incubating as an Apache project. The motivation for creating a Clojure package is to be able to open the deep learning library to the Clojure ecosystem and build bridges for future development and innovation for the community. It provides all the needed tools including low level and high level apis, dynamic graphs, and things like GAN and natural language support. ...