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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, previously known as CNTK and sometimes styled as The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, is a deprecated deep learning framework developed by Microsoft Research. Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit describes neural networks as a series of computational steps via a directed graph.

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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
DeveloperMicrosoft Research
Initial release25 January 2016 (2016-01-25)
Stable release
2.7.0 / 26 April 2019 (2019-04-26)
Written inC++
Operating systemWindows,1 Linux
TypeLibrary for machine learning and deep learning
LicenseMIT License2
Websitewww.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/
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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit,3 previously known as CNTK and sometimes styled as The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, is a deprecated4 deep learning framework developed by Microsoft Research. Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit describes neural networks as a series of computational steps via a directed graph.

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit - Cognitive Toolkit - CNTK". learn.microsoft.com. 22 January 2017.
  2. CNTK/LICENSE.md at master · Microsoft/CNTK
  3. Linn, Allison (25 October 2016). "Microsoft releases beta of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit for deep learning advances". microsoft.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 28 January 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017. Title: Microsoft releases beta of [no 'The' here] Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
  4. chrisbasoglu (April 2019). "CNTK_2_7_Release_Notes - Cognitive Toolkit - CNTK". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Meints, Willem (2019). Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide: A practical guide to building neural networks using Microsoft's open source deep learning framework. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1789802993.