CNTK vs theano vs tensorflow

[pallashadow]

CNTK is optimized platform for RNN ASR (automatic speech recognition). In terms of training and evaluation speed, CNTK has significant advantages over TensorFlow. A comparison made by researchers at HKBU (http://dlbench.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/, and article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.07249.pdf) For GPU trainning, CNTK would have a linear speedup according to mini-batch size, thus would be 10 times faster than other deep learning platforms （ theano, tensorflow or torch）.

Do you have any plan on CNTK?

[ronanki]

We are extending towards Keras and tensorflow at the moment. Any other backend is also welcome as a PR.

[m-toman]

I think CNTK now also supports Keras?

[lshaton]

Yes