Open sourcing our neural network libraries – Blog – Neural Network Libraries

We are very excited today to open-source Sony's neural network libraries, a software that helps the workflows of deep learning research, development and production. Neural networks are the core ingredients of deep learning models. Deep learning has first received huge attention in 2012, when an image classification model accomplished a great leap in image recognition, winning against other models with a large gap, in the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. Nowadays, deep learning is widely used in many applications as an essential tool, not only as a pattern recognition algorithm, but also as a tool capable of modeling black-box systems. The architectures of deep learning models vary at a wide range, in various aspects; from small to large, from feed-forward to recurrent, from unsupervised to supervised and so on.