Open Source Neural Network Libraries

We present a classification and regression algorithm called Random Bits Forest (RBF). RBF integrates neural network (for depth), boosting (for wideness) and random forest (for accuracy). It first generates and selects ~10,000 small three-layer threshold random neural networks as basis by gradient boosting scheme. These binary basis are then feed into a modified random forest algorithm to obtain predictions. In conclusion, RBF is a novel framework that performs strongly especially on data with large size.

Time series forecasting is one of the most important topics in data science. Almost every business needs to predict the future in order to make better decisions and allocate resources more effectively. This repository provides examples and best practice guidelines for building forecasting solutions. The goal of this repository is to build a comprehensive set of tools and examples that leverage recent advances in forecasting algorithms to build solutions and operationalize them. Rather than creating implementations from scratch, we draw from existing state-of-the-art libraries and build additional utilities around processing and featuring the data, optimizing and evaluating models, and scaling up to the cloud. The examples and best practices are provided as Python Jupyter notebooks and R markdown files and a library of utility functions.

SynapseML (previously MMLSpark) is an open source library to simplify the creation of scalable machine learning pipelines. SynapseML builds on Apache Spark and SparkML to enable new kinds of machine learning, analytics, and model deployment workflows. SynapseML adds many deep learning and data science tools to the Spark ecosystem, including seamless integration of Spark Machine Learning pipelines with the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), LightGBM, The Cognitive Services, Vowpal Wabbit, and OpenCV. These tools enable powerful and highly-scalable predictive and analytical models for a variety of data sources. SynapseML also brings new networking capabilities to the Spark Ecosystem. With the HTTP on Spark project, users can embed any web service into their SparkML models. For production-grade deployment, the Spark Serving project enables high throughput, sub-millisecond latency web services, backed by your Spark cluster.