News

June 2016

2016-06-15. CNTK now supports building against a custom Intel® Math Kernel Library (MKL). See setup instructions on how to set this up for your platform.

2016-06-10. See CNTK v.1.5 binary release announcement in the official Microsoft Research Blog

2016-06-08. V 1.5 Binary release CNTK v.1.5 binaries are on the CNTK Releases page

2016-06-01. An updated version of the network-description language has been made available under the new BrainScript Network Builder, which features full expression parsing, recursive functions, and more.

May 2016

2016-05-19. A 1-hour talk describing CNTK, how to use it, and how it works, has been posted at Presentations.

2016-05-16. An example illustrating Using CNTK with ResNet is added to the codebase. The example contains some pre-trained models that can be used in various applications.

2016-05-16. CNTK Wiki now has FAQ Page

2016-05-05. CNTK now supports BlockMomentum Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm. See the details in the Multiple GPUs and machines Wiki section

2016-05-03. New transformations are implemented for Image Reader. See the description in the Image Reader Wiki section

April 2016

2016-04-25. V 1.1 Binary release CNTK v.1.1 binaries are on the CNTK Releases page

2016-04-12. CNTK is available as Azure Virtual Machines and Docker Containers

2016-04-12. Added support for ND convolution and ND pooling and CPU support for cudnn layout in convolution, pooling and batch normalization nodes. Read documentation on convolution, pooling and batch normalization nodes.

2016-04-05. CUDA7.5 support for Windows Build: Windows project files have been updated to automatically utilize CUDA 7.5 if present

March 2016

2016-03-24. New Text Reader (CNTKTextFormatReader) is available Read description here https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/CNTKTextFormat-Reader

February 2016

2016-02-29. Added ZIP files support to the ImageReader Examples: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Image-reader Updated build steps at https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Setup-CNTK-on-your-machine

2016-02-29. Added documentation for the ImageReader https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Image-reader

2016-02-17. CNTK Contribution Guidelines are published Check it out here: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Contributing-to-CNTK

2016-02-15. The first part of CNTK tutorial is published. You can find it here: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Tutorial

2016-02-10. Binary release Most up-to-date binaries are on the CNTK Releases page

January 2016

2016-01-26. First binary release after the move to GitHub is published (GPU only).

2016-01-25 13:00 GMT. CNTK new repository in GitHub went public! Together with GitHub repository a new CNTK web site http://www.cntk.ai/ also became available.