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Google\u2019s DeepMind announced today that it was open sourcing Sonnet<\/a>, its object-oriented neural network library. Sonnet doesn\u2019t replace TensorFlow, it\u2019s simply a higher-level library that meshes well with DeepMind\u2019s internal best-practices for research.<\/p>\n Specifically, DeepMind says in its blog post that the library is optimized to make it easier to switch between different models when conducting\u00a0experiments so that engineers don\u2019t have to upend their entire projects. To this avail, the team made changes to TensorFlow to make it easier to\u00a0consider models as hierarchies. DeepMind also added transparency to\u00a0variable sharing.<\/p>\n It\u2019s in DeepMind\u2019s own interest to open source Sonnet.\u00a0If the community becomes acquainted with DeepMind\u2019s internal libraries, it will become easier for the group to\u00a0release models side-by-side with papers. Inversely, it also means the machine intelligence community can more feasibly contribute back by employing Sonnet in their own work.<\/p>\n I think @DeepMindAI<\/a> is opensourcing Sonnet to make it easier for them to opensource models along with papers. A move in the right direction.<\/p>\n \u2014 hardmaru (@hardmaru) April 7, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n DeepMind has been particularly active in open source in recent months. It is developing an open-source API to enable research to be done on StarCraft II. Back in December, the team released DeepMind Lab<\/a> to catalyze generalized AI research \u2014 much like OpenAI\u2019s Universe<\/a>. Open-source projects even got their own home<\/a> on the DeepMind website.<\/p>\n The library is available now on GitHub<\/a>. The group plans to continue to release updates as it modifies its\u00a0library internally.<\/p>\n Featured Image: Bryce Durbin<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\n
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