Tech giant Microsoft made the decision to announce that one of the top-tier cross-platform frameworks for model-based machine learning is open to one and all worldwide. "We're extremely excited today to open source Infer.NET on GitHub under the permissive MIT license for free use in commercial applications," wrote Yordan Zaykov, Principal Research Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft in an official statement. Open sourcing Infer.NET represents the culmination of a long and ambitious journey. The Microsoft Research Team in Cambridge embarked on developing the framework back in 2004. The statement said that they had learned a lot along the way about making ML solutions that are scalable and interpretable.

The Accord.NET Framework is a .NET machine learning framework combined with audio and image processing libraries completely written in C#. It is a complete framework for building production-grade computer vision, computer audition, signal processing and statistics applications even for commercial use. A comprehensive set of sample applications provide a fast start to get up and running quickly, and an extensive documentation and wiki helps fill in the details.