2016 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award Goes to Juergen Schmidhuber

Brainstorm Open Source
Software for Neural Networks

Jürgen Schmidhuber, 26 Oct 2015

Edit of 2020: Before Google's Tensorflow dethroned Brainstorm, this open source software made IDSIA the top trending Python developer on Github, ahead of Facebook, Google, and Dropbox. Here the old announcement:


We are open-sourcing a new neural networks library called Brainstorm, developed over the past year at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA by PhD students Klaus Greff and Rupesh Srivastava: https://github.com/IDSIA/brainstorm

Brainstorm is designed to make deep neural networks fast, flexible and fun. Lessons learned from earlier open source projects led to new design elements compatible with multiple platforms and computing backends.

Brainstorm already has a robust base feature set, including support for recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as LSTM, Clockwork, 2D Convolution/Pooling and Highway layers on CPU/GPU. All data is considered sequential, and RNNs are first-class citizens.

We hope the community will help us to further improve Brainstorm.
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Brainstorm - making neural networks fast, flexible and fun