Getting started with Linux and Python by Caffe

Goal
Linux Basics
Fundamentals of Python
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Introduction to Linux and Python
Building Caffe from scratch and deploy on Linux
Lihang Li
NLPR
CASIA - Robot Vision Group
January 20, 2015
Lihang Li NLPR Getting Started With Linux and Python By Caffe

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Outline
1 Goal
2 Linux Basics
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
3 Fundamentals of Python
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
4 Caffe
Build Caffe From Scratch
Play With Caffe Examples
5 Conclusion
6 What’s Next

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
What’s in this talk?
Linux
Get familiar with basic Linux commands and tools.
Python
Able to read Caffe sample code and hack some simple Python
code.
Caffe
Deploy Caffe on Linux by building from source code and learn the
examples.

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Outline
1 Goal
2 Linux Basics
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
4 Caﬀe
5 Conclusion
6 What’s Next

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Free Software
What is Free Software?
Free software means the users have the freedom to run, copy,
distribute, study, change and improve the software.
Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the
concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free
beer.

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Linux Basics
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Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Free Software
Essential Freedoms
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
(freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to
your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a
precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your
neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to improve the program, and release your
improvements to the public, so that the whole community
beneﬁts (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a
precondition for this.

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
GNU
What is GNU?
GNU is a Unix-like operating system. That means it is a collection
of many programs: applications, libraries, developer tools, even
games. The development of GNU, started in January 1984, is
known as the GNU Project. Many of the programs in GNU are
released under the auspices of the GNU Project; those we call GNU
packages.
The name GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU’s Not Unix. GNU
is pronounced g’noo, as one syllable, like saying grew but replacing
the r with n.

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Linux
Linux or GNU/Linux?
The program in a Unix-like system that allocates machine
resources and talk to the hardware is called the kernel. GNU is
typically used with a kernel called Linux. This combination is the
GNU/Linux operating system. GNU/Linux is used by millions,
though many call it Linux by mistake.
GNU’s own kernel, The Hurd, was started in 1990 (before Linux
was started). Volunteers continue developing the Hurd because it
is an interesting technical project.
Without the GNU packages(gcc, make, etc), Linus would
ﬁnd it hard to start writing the Linux kernel.

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Linux in a nutshell
Linux Core Concepts
Linux Kernel(Linux itself is an Operating System kernel)
Linux Distro(Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, etc)
Linux Shell(Bash, Zsh, Csh, sh, etc)
Linux PackageManager(apt-get, yum, etc)
Linux Toolchain(gcc, make, etc)
Linux Commandline(cd, ls, cp, mv, rm, etc)

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Linux Basics
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Conclusion
What’s Next
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Basic Linux Commands
File Operations
ls, cd, pwd, cp, mv, rm, touch, etc
Compression and Decompression
tar, gzip, gunzip, unzip, bzip, etc
Network
ping, hostname, wget, curl, git, etc
Development
vim, gcc, make, ldd, gdb, export, source, etc

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Linux Basics
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Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Hello Linux!
#include <iostream >
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
cout <<"Hello Linux!"<<endl;
return 0;
}
Compile with g++
g++ hello linux.cpp -o hello linux && ./hello linux
Build with make
vim Makeﬁle && make && ./hello linux

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Linux Books
Linux Pocket Guide
Linux in a Nutshell
Running Linux
The Linux Command Line
Advanced Linux Programming
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment(APUE)

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Outline
1 Goal
2 Linux Basics
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
4 Caﬀe
5 Conclusion
6 What’s Next

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
What is Python?
Python
Python is a great object-oriented, interpreted, and interactive
programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or
Java.
Python Features
Open Source and cross-platform(Linux, MacOS, Windows...)
Uses an elegant syntax, making the programs you write easier
to read.
Data types are strongly and dynamically typed.
Automatic memory management.

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What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Hello Python!
#!/usr/bin/env python
myString = "Hello Python!"
print myString
Run Python
Interactive intepreter from the command line(Python or
IPython)
Running a script written in Python(python script name.py)

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Linux Basics
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Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Variables and Assignments
Python Variable
counter = 0 # the integer
miles = 1000.0 # the floating point
name = ’Bob ’ # string
couner = counter + 1 # an incremental statement for
integer
kilometers = 1.609* miles # floating point operation
and assignment

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Strings
Python String
pystr = ’PYTHON ’
iscool = ’is cool!’
pystr [0] # ’P’
pystr [2:5] # ’THO ’, from 2 to 4
iscool [:2] # ’is ’, from 0 to 1
pystr + iscool # ’PYTHON is cool!’
pystr *2 # ’PYTHONPYTHON ’
iscool [-1] # ’!’, counting backward

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Lists and Tuples
Python List
alist = [1,2,3,4]
alist # [1,2,3,4]
alist [0] # [1]
alist [2:] # [3,4]
alist [:3] # [1,2,3]
alist [1] = 5
alist # [1,5,3,4]

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
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What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Lists and Tuples
Python Tuple
atuple = (’robots ’,77,93,’try ’)
atuple # (’robots ’,77,93,’try ’)
atuple [:3] # (’robots ’ ,77 ,93)
atuple [1] = 5 # TypeError:’tuple ’ object dose not
support item assignment

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
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What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Dictionaries
Python Dictionary
prices = {’apple ’: 0.40, ’banana ’: 0.50}
prices[’apple ’] # 0.40
prices.keys () # [’apple ’,’banana ’]
prices[’orange ’] = 0.60
prices # {’apple ’: 0.40, ’banana ’: 0.50,
’orange ’: 0.60}

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Conditional Statments
Python If-Else
if condition:
# Code to run if condition true
elif other_cond:
# Code to run if other_cond and not condition
else:
# Code to run if not (condition and other_cond)
# Python has a ternary operator
x = a if condition else b

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Loops
Pyton For Loop
for i in iterator:
# Do something with i
for i in iterator1:
for j in iterator2:
# Do something with i and j

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Loops
Python While Loop
while some_condition :
# Do something
# Update condition

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - List comprehensions
Python List Comprehensions
# List comprehensions are syntactically dense method
to build lists
# Basic
x = [item for item in iterable]
# Can be combined with logicals
x = [item for item in iterable if item >0]

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Functions
Python Functions
def greet(name):
print ’Hello ’, name
greet(’Jack ’)
greet(’Jill ’)
greet(’Bob ’)

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Functions
Python Fuctions
# Basic
function ()
out = function(arg1 , arg2 , ...)
# Return multiple outputs
a,b,c = function ()
# Two input methods
function(x,y) # In order(positional)
function(file=’input ,csv ’, skiprows =10) # keyword

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - I/O
Python Openning Files
# indent your Python code to put into an email
import glob
# glob supports Unix style pathname extensions
python_files = glob.glob (’*.py ’)
for file_name in sorted(python_files):
print ’ ------’ + file_name
with open(file_name) as f:
for line in f:
print ’ ’ + line.rstrip ()
print

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Basics - Packages and Modules
Python Modules and Packages
Modules in Python are simply Python files with the .py extension,
which implement a set of functions. Modules are imported from
other modules using the import command.
Packages are namespaces which contain multiple packages and
modules themselves. They are simply directories, which MUST
contain a special file called init .py.
Python Import Modules
import numpy as np
import caffe

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Scientific Python
SciPy
SciPy(http://www.scipy.org/) is an open source library of
scientific tools for Python. SciPy supplements the popular NumPy
module, gathering a variety of high level science and engineering
modules together as a single package. SciPy includes modules for
linear algebra, optimization, integration, special functions, signal
and image processing, statistics, genetic algorithms, ODE solvers,
and others.
NumPy
Numerical Python(http://www.numpy.org/) adds a fast,
compact, multidimensional array facility to Python. NumPy is the
successor to both Numeric and Numarray.

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
Python Resources
Links
https://www.python.org/
https://wiki.python.org/
https://docs.python.org/
https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/
Books
A Byte of Python
See also:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Outline
1 Goal
2 Linux Basics
Open Source
Hello World
Recommended Books
Why Python
A Byte of Python
Good References
4 Caﬀe
5 Conclusion
6 What’s Next

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
What is Caffe?
Caffe is a deep learning framework developed with cleanliness,
readability, and speed in mind. It was created by Yangqing Jia
during his PhD at UC Berkeley, and is in active development by the
Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC) and by community
contributors. Caffe is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.
With Caffe, you can do whatever Deep Learning can do
easily!

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Why use Caffe?
Clean architecture enables rapid deployment.
Readable & modifiable implementation fosters active
development.
Speed makes Caffe perfect for industry use. Caffe can process
over 40M images per day with a single NVIDIA K40 or Titan
GPU*. Thats 5 ms/image in training, and 2 ms/image in test.
We believe that Caffe is the fastest CNN implementation
available.
Community: Caffe already powers academic research projects,
startup prototypes, and even large-scale industrial applications
in vision, speech, and multimedia. There is an active
discussion and support community on Github.

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Caffe-Core Software Packages
Caffe(http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/)
CUDA(https://developer.nvidia.com/)
cuDNN(https://developer.nvidia.com/cuDNN)
OpenBLAS(http://www.openblas.net/)
OpenCV(http://opencv.org/)
Boost(http://www.boost.org/)

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Caffe-Other Dependencies
protobuf(https://github.com/google/protobuf)
google-glog(https://code.google.com/p/google-glog/)
gflags(https://code.google.com/p/gflags/)
snappy(https://github.com/google/snappy)
leveldb(https://github.com/google/leveldb)
lmdb(http://symas.com/mdb/)
hdf5(http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/)

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Linux Basics
Caﬀe
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What’s Next
Caﬀe-Build Tools
CMake(http://www.cmake.org/)
make(http://www.gnu.org/software/make/)

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What’s Next
Build from Source vs. Package Manager
Build from Source
Much more customization and tuning
Usually by invoking ./conﬁgure && make && make install
A disaster when tons of dependencies arise
Package Manager
Install everything using just one simple command, such as
sudo apt-get install meshlab
Can’t be altered since the installed packages are pre-built

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Get Caffe Source Code
Get Caffe
git clone https :// github.com/BVLC/caffe.git

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What’s Next
Install OpenBLAS
Install OpenBLAS
git clone https :// github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS.git
make FC=gfortran NO_AFFINITY =1 USE_OPENMP =1
mkdir -p ~/ local/OpenBLAS
make PREFIX=$HOME/local/OpenBLAS install

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What’s Next
Install protobuf
Install protobuf
wget https :// protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf
-2.5.0. tar.gz
tar zxvf protobuf -2.5.0. tar.gz
cd protobuf -2.5.0
./ configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install

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What’s Next
Install snappy
Install snappy
wget https:// snappy.googlecode.com/files/snappy -1.1.1.
tar.gz
tar zxvf snappy -1.1.1. tar.gz
cd snappy -1.1.1
make
make install

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What’s Next
Install leveldb
Install leveldb
wget https:// leveldb.googlecode.com/files/leveldb
-1.15.0. tar.gz
tar zxvf leveldb -1.15.0. tar.gz
cd leveldb -1.15.0
make
cp -av libleveldb .* $HOME/local/lib/
cp -av include/leveldb $HOME/local/include/

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What’s Next
Install OpenCV
Install OpenCV
wget https:// github.com/Itseez/opencv/archive /2.4.8.
tar.gz
tar zxvf 2.4.8. tar.gz && cd opencv -2.4.8
mkdir release && cd release
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE =RELEASE -D
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX =$HOME/local -D
BUILD_opencv_gpu =OFF ..
make && make install

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What’s Next
Install Boost
Install Boost
wget http:// cznic.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/
boost /1.55.0/ boost_1_55_0.tar.gz
./ bootstrap.sh --prefix=$HOME/local
./b2 -j 32
./b2 install

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What’s Next
Install google-glog
Install google-glog
wget https://google -glog.googlecode.com/files/glog
-0.3.3. tar.gz
tar zxvf glog -0.3.3. tar.gz
cd glog -0.3.3
make
make install

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Caffe
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What’s Next
Install gflags
Install gflags
git clone https:// code.google.com/p/gflags/
cd gflags
mkdir build && cd build
CXXFLAGS="-fPIC" cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX =$HOME/
local ..
make
make install

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Install lmdb
Install lmdb
git clone https:// gitorious.org/mdb/mdb.git
cd mdb/libraries/liblmdb
make
make prefix=$HOME/local install

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Install hdf5
Install hdf5
wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5
-1.8.14. tar.gz
tar zxvf hdf5 -1.8.14. tar.gz && cd hdf5 -1.8.14
make && make check # run test suite.
make install && make check -install # verify
installation.

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What’s Next
Install cuDNN
Install cuDNN
cp /data1/NLPRMNT/public/cudnn/lib64 /* ~/ local/lib
cp /data1/NLPRMNT/public/cudnn/include /* ~/ local/
include

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What’s Next
Modify Path
Modify Path
vim ~/. bashrc
# Take CUDA for example
export PATH =/usr/local/cuda/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH =/usr/local/cuda/lib64:
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
source ~/. bashrc

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Build Caffe
Build Caffe
cp Makefile.config.example Makefile.config
vim Makefile.config
============[ Makefile.config]
USE_CUDNN := 1
CUDA_DIR := /usr/local/cuda
INCLUDE_DIRS := /data1/NLPRMNT/xxx/local/include
LIBRARY_DIRS := /data1/NLPRMNT/xxx/local/lib
============[ Makefile.config]
make all -j8
make test -j8

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Caffe Usage
Interfaces
Caffe has command line, Python, and MATLAB interfaces for
day-to-day usage, interfacing with research code, and rapid
prototyping. While Caffe is a C++ library at heart and it exposes a
modular interface for development, not every occasion calls for
custom compilation. The cmdcaffe, pycaffe, and matcaffe
interfaces are here for you.

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Caffe Interface - cmdcaffe
cmdcaffe
The command line interface cmdcaffe is the caffe tool for model
training, scoring, and diagnostics. Run caffe without any
arguments for help. This tool and others are found in
caffe/build/tools.

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Caffe
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What’s Next
cmdcaffe - Training
caffe train learns models from scratch, resumes learning from saved
snapshots, and fine-tunes models to new data and tasks. All
training requires a solver configuration through the -solver
solver.prototxt argument. Resuming requires the -snapshot
model iter 1000.solverstate argument to load the solver snapshot.
# train LeNet
caffe train -solver examples/mnist/lenet_solver.
prototxt
# train on GPU 2
caffe train -solver examples/mnist/lenet_solver.
prototxt -gpu 2

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Caffe
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What’s Next
cmdcaffe - Testing
caffe test scores models by running them in the test phase and
reports the net output as its score. The net architecture must be
properly defined to output an accuracy measure or loss as its
output. The per-batch score is reported and then the grand
average is reported last.
# score the learned LeNet model on the validation set
as defined in the model architeture
lenet_train_test .prototxt
caffe test -model examples/mnist/ lenet_train_test .
prototxt -weights examples/mnist/ lenet_iter_10000
-gpu 0 -iterations 100

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What’s Next
cmdcaffe - Benchmarking
caffe time benchmarks model execution layer-by-layer through
timing and synchronization. This is useful to check system
performance and measure relative execution times for models.
# time LeNet training on CPU for 10 iterations
caffe time -model examples/mnist/ lenet_train_test .
prototxt -iterations 10
# time LeNet training on GPU for the default 50
iterations
caffe time -model examples/mnist/ lenet_train_test .
prototxt -gpu 0

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Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
cmdcaffe - Diagnostics
caffe device query reports GPU details for reference and checking
device ordinals for running on a given device in multi-GPU
machines.
# query the first device
caffe device_query -gpu 0

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Caffe
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What’s Next
Caffe Interface - pycaffe
pycaffe
The Python interface pycaffe is the caffe module and its scripts in
caffe/python. import caffe to load models, do forward and
backward, handle IO, visualize networks, and even instrument
model solving. All model data, derivatives, and parameters are
exposed for reading and writing.
Compile pycaffe by make pycaffe. The module dir
caffe/python/caffe should be installed in your PYTHONPATH for
import caffe.

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Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
pycaffe
caffe.Net is the central interface for loading, configuring, and
running models. caffe.Classsifier and caffe.Detector provide
convenience interfaces for common tasks.
caffe.SGDSolver exposes the solving interface.
caffe.io handles input/output with preprocessing and protocol
buffers.
caffe.draw visualizes network architectures.
Caffe blobs are exposed as numpy ndarrays for ease-of-use and
efficiency.

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Caffe
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What’s Next
Caffe Interface - matcaffe
The MATLAB interface matcaffe is the caffe mex and its helper
m-files in caffe/matlab. Load models, do forward and backward,
extract output and read-only model weights, and load the
binaryproto format mean as a matrix.
Compile matcaffe by make matcaffe.
A MATLAB demo is in caffe/matlab/caffe/matcaffe demo.m

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Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Linux
We have learned basic Linux commands and tools(such as wget,
make) for building a software package from source.
Python
By learning basic Python grammars, the audience are expected to
be able to read the source code of Caffe Python samples and do
some simple hack.
Caffe
Through learning how to deploy Caffe on Linux by building from
source code, people should find it comfortable to deploy other
complicated software packages by reading the README or help
file shipped with the packages.

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Linux Basics
Caffe
Conclusion
What’s Next
Enjoy Caffe, Enjoy Open Source!
Deep Learning
Deploy Caffe on Linux by yourself
Dive into Linux and Python by referencing great books
Discuss with others and share experience with Caffe
Use Caffe to tackle your Deep Learning problems
Contribute your own source code to Caffe to make it better!

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The End
Thank You & Have Fun!

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