GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python

Hebel is a library for deep learning with neural networks in Python using GPU acceleration with CUDA through PyCUDA. It implements the most important types of neural network models and offers a variety of different activation functions and training methods such as momentum, Nesterov momentum, dropout, and early stopping.

Right now, Hebel implements only feed-forward neural networks for classification on one or multiple tasks. Other models such as neural network regression, Autoencoder, Convolutional neural nets, and Restricted Boltzman machines are planned for the future.

Hebel implements dropout as well as L1 and L2 weight decay for regularization.

Hebel implements stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with regular and Nesterov momentum.

Currently, Hebel will only run on Linux and probably Mac OS X (not tested). Hebel currently won't run in Windows, because scikits.cuda is not supported in Windows.

• PyCUDA
• scikits.cuda
• numpy
• PyYAML
• skdata (only for MNIST example)

Study the yaml configuration files in examples/ and run

python train_model.py examples/mnist_neural_net_shallow.yaml

The script will create a directory in examples/mnist where the models and logs are saved.

Read the Getting started guide at hebel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started.html for more information.

hebel.readthedocs.org (coming slowly)

Hebel is the German word for lever, one of the oldest tools that humans use. As Archimedes said it: "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."