sypy-27apr2017

Presentation and demo materials presented on 27th April 2017 in Sydney Python User Group (SyPy)

Getting CNTK

Please go to the CNTK documentation for instruction on how to setup in your machine.

Running the example

This is a two part operation. Getting the data first and then running the training.

Getting the MNIST data

You only need to do this once. MNIST data is downloaded, converted into CNTK Text Format and saved for later use. Go into the /datasets/MNIST directory and run

python install_mnist.py

Training the model

From the root directory, run

python mnist.py

Note: This code is tested in python 3.4. If you are using python 2.x, please add some futuristic imports wherever necessary.

Further reading

Probably the richest resource right now is the wiki.