Software
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Theano
web siteTheano is an optimizing compiler in Python, built to evaluate complicated expressions (especially matrix-valued ones) as quickly as possible. Theano is not a programming language in the normal sense as it is based on Python.
Theano take advantage of GPUs to speed up computation.
R
web siteChipman, H. and McCulloch, R.E. BayesTree, package for the open-source R statistical software. Continued updates in 2008-9.
Bouveyron, C. and Chipman, H. (2007). LLN: Learnign with Latent Networks, R library (open-source software library).
Chipman, H. and McCulloch, R. (2006). BayesTree: Bayesian Methods for Tree Based Models, R library (open-source software library).
Chipman, H. and Tibshirani, R. (2006). hybridHclust: Hybrid Hierarchical Clustering, R library (open-source software library).
Laflamme-Sanders A., Su W., Zhu M. (2007). lago (version 0.1-1) [R package], soon to be available from the official R site.
Qiao D., Zhu M. (2007). pga (version 0.1-1) [R package], soon to be available from the official R site.
PLearn
web sitePLearn is an open source software for statistical learning initially developped by Pascal Vincent and Yoshua Bengio when Pascal was doing his PhD with Yoshua in 1999. Now Pascal is a Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal and a core investigators of MITACS. The students of Yoshua and Pascal use PLearn for most of their research on statistical learning algorithms, and many of them have significantly contributed to PLearn. Some of the algorithms in PLearn include Multi-Layer Neural Networks, Restricted Boltzmann Machines, Deep Belief Nets, efficient implementations of k-nearest neighbors and kernel density estimators, etc.
