CNTK VS Theano

Compare CNTK vs Theano and see what are their differences.

CNTK

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), an open source deep-learning toolkit (by microsoft)
Artificial intelligence cognitive-toolkit Cntk Deep Learning Machine Learning deep-neural-networks neural-network Distributed Python C++ C# Java
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Theano

Theano was a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. It is being continued as PyTensor: www.github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor (by Theano)
Deep Learning
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CNTK Theano
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17,435 9,852
0.0% 0.1%
0.0 5.0
about 1 year ago 3 months ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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CNTK

Posts with mentions or reviews of CNTK. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-20.

Theano

Posts with mentions or reviews of Theano. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CNTK and Theano you can also consider the following projects:

tensorflow - An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

Pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration

mxnet - Lightweight, Portable, Flexible Distributed/Mobile Deep Learning with Dynamic, Mutation-aware Dataflow Dep Scheduler; for Python, R, Julia, Scala, Go, Javascript and more

Caffe - Caffe: a fast open framework for deep learning.

Keras - Deep Learning for humans

scikit-learn - scikit-learn: machine learning in Python

Caffe2

tiny-cnn - header only, dependency-free deep learning framework in C++14

silero-models - Silero Models: pre-trained speech-to-text, text-to-speech and text-enhancement models made embarrassingly simple

CNTK vs tensorflow Theano vs Pytorch CNTK vs Pytorch Theano vs mxnet CNTK vs Caffe Theano vs Caffe CNTK vs Keras Theano vs Keras CNTK vs scikit-learn Theano vs Caffe2 CNTK vs tiny-cnn Theano vs silero-models