EBLearn: Open-source energy-based learning in C++

Pierre Sermanet, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Yann LeCun

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Abstract

Energy-based learning (EBL) is a general framework to describe supervised and unsupervised training methods for probabilistic and non-probabilistic factor graphs. An energy-based model associates a scalar energy to configurations of inputs, outputs, and latent variables. Learning machines can be constructed by assembling modules and loss functions. Gradient-based learning procedures are easily implemented through semi-automatic differentiation of complex models constructed by assembling predefined modules. We introduce an open-source and cross-platform C++ library called EBLearn1 to enable the construction of energy-based learning models. EBLearn is composed of two major components, libidx: an efficient and flexible multi-dimensional tensor library, and libeblearn: an object-oriented library of trainable modules and learning algorithms. The latter has facilities for such models as convolutional networks, as well as for image processing. It also provides graphical display functions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationICTAI 2009 - 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Pages693-697
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2009 - Newark, NJ, United States
Duration: Nov 2 2009Nov 5 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI
ISSN (Print)1082-3409

Other

Other21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNewark, NJ
Period11/2/0911/5/09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications

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