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Availability · March 2015

Keras

Francois Chollet released a wrapper in which a network is described in a dozen lines and the lower-level complexity is hidden.

Why it matters

Deep learning became accessible without understanding computation graphs, and the number of people who could train a network grew by an order of magnitude.

The first version ran on Theano, TensorFlow support followed, and in 2017 Keras became the latter's official high-level interface. Simplicity cost flexibility, and research groups mostly stayed at the lower level. But for applied work and teaching it became the usual entry point.

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The first release was in March 2015.

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