@mli Between MXNET and Pytorch, which would you recommend to use for a beginner in deep learning? Is either of them fine?
Further to this, since tensorflow is “49% faster” than MXNet, why have you decided to include MXNET and Pytorch instead of tensorflow api?
*I am new at deep learning and commend the thorough guide!
You could compare the MXNet/PyTorch code tabs and choose the one you like. I personally like more MXNet as I’m one of its creator, but PyTorch is more popular. From the learning aspect, I think any framework is fine, it’s a just tool for you to understand and try deep learning algorithms.
I think “Tensorflow is 49% faster than MXNet” is not general true. But we do plan to add TensorFlow implementations.
I have not used MXNET but in my view You should consider learning pytorch. It has big support and big community around it. You will find that it is easier to learn a framework that is widely adopted since you can get support from everywhere. Beside that, recruiters are likely to make it a requirement to know pytorch or tensorflow.
Hi, thank you for putting this course together. I had a question about gpu/cpu. I have AMD 3950x Ryzen processor and an AMD Vega Frontier GPU. Which one do you recommend I use? Does it matter? If GPU, is installation much different than NVidia? Does having multiple GPUs make a difference ( I have two Vega frontier GPUs)?
Unfortunately AMD GPUs are not well supported by deep learning frameworks right now. I suggest you to have a Nvidia GPU.
Help! I’m using the Jetson Nano. I’m having trouble installing either Miniconda or Archiconda. Can someone please help me get Anaconda installed on the Nano. Thanks!
I was able to complete everything in the Installation chapter of the book except
pip install mxnet-cu90==1.6.0
The response I’m getting is
“Collecting mxnet-cu90==1.6.0
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement mxnet-cu90==1.6.0 (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for mxnet-cu90==1.6.0”
I’ve tried several variations and no progress with anything to do with MXNet. I’m running on macos 10.12, and CUDA Release 9.0 V9.0.175 (the latest version for that OS).
Any suggestions? TIA
Based on what I’m finding from my own digging into this problem, it’s looking like the book is assuming that readers are developing on non-macOS platforms without saying so. According to https://mxnet.apache.org/get_started/?version=v1.6.0&platform=macos&language=python&processor=gpu&environ=pip
There is no “pip” install option for macOS. It seems that MXNet will have to be manually built from source code on individual macOS devices, which is much more involved.
There is no mxnet110 developed yet(most recently 10*), while the link “CUBA” in the paragraph will lead to the downloading page of CUBA 11.0 . It is contradictary, so is mxnet100 compatable with CUBA 11.0??
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Hi @skywalker_H, CUDA upgrades the version regularly, you should be able to use CUDA10.1. http://d2l.ai/chapter_appendix-tools-for-deep-learning/aws.html#installing-cuda
I am using a Surface notebook with Intel Graphics chips, does it mean that I’d better get a new computer with NVidia cards?
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mxnet installation is frastruating.
1st-3th Try:
(mxnet) C:\Users\a8679>pip install mxnet==1.6.0
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
Collecting mxnet==1.6.0
Downloading https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/6c/3c/c800c23068ef23dedbb2641574b24cbc6d51c7d7b7bddbc803a93d7409d3/mxnet-1.6.0-py2.py3-none-win_amd64.whl (26.9 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 26.8 MB 18 kB/s eta 0:00:05ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\urllib3\response.py”, line 425, in _error_catcher
yield
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\urllib3\response.py”, line 507, in read
data = self._fp.read(amt) if not fp_closed else b""
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\cachecontrol\filewrapper.py”, line 62, in read
data = self.__fp.read(amt)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\http\client.py”, line 457, in read
n = self.readinto(b)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\http\client.py”, line 501, in readinto
n = self.fp.readinto(b)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\socket.py”, line 589, in readinto
return self._sock.recv_into(b)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\ssl.py”, line 1071, in recv_into
return self.read(nbytes, buffer)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\ssl.py”, line 929, in read
return self._sslobj.read(len, buffer)
socket.timeout: The read operation timed out
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\cli\base_command.py”, line 186, in _main
status = self.run(options, args)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\commands\install.py”, line 331, in run
resolver.resolve(requirement_set)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\legacy_resolve.py”, line 177, in resolve
discovered_reqs.extend(self._resolve_one(requirement_set, req))
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\legacy_resolve.py”, line 333, in _resolve_one
abstract_dist = self._get_abstract_dist_for(req_to_install)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\legacy_resolve.py”, line 282, in _get_abstract_dist_for
abstract_dist = self.preparer.prepare_linked_requirement(req)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\operations\prepare.py”, line 482, in prepare_linked_requirement
hashes=hashes,
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\operations\prepare.py”, line 287, in unpack_url
hashes=hashes,
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\operations\prepare.py”, line 159, in unpack_http_url
link, downloader, temp_dir.path, hashes
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\operations\prepare.py”, line 303, in _download_http_url
for chunk in download.chunks:
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\utils\ui.py”, line 160, in iter
for x in it:
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_internal\network\utils.py”, line 39, in response_chunks
decode_content=False,
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\urllib3\response.py”, line 564, in stream
data = self.read(amt=amt, decode_content=decode_content)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\urllib3\response.py”, line 529, in read
raise IncompleteRead(self._fp_bytes_read, self.length_remaining)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\contextlib.py”, line 130, in exit
self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
File “C:\Users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\urllib3\response.py”, line 430, in _error_catcher
raise ReadTimeoutError(self._pool, None, “Read timed out.”)
pip._vendor.urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn’, port=443): Read timed out.
4th try:
(mxnet) C:\Users\a8679>pip install mxnet==1.6.0
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
Collecting mxnet==1.6.0
Downloading https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/6c/3c/c800c23068ef23dedbb2641574b24cbc6d51c7d7b7bddbc803a93d7409d3/mxnet-1.6.0-py2.py3-none-win_amd64.whl (26.9 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 26.9 MB 297 kB/s
Collecting requests<2.19.0,>=2.18.4
Downloading https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/49/df/50aa1999ab9bde74656c2919d9c0c085fd2b3775fd3eca826012bef76d8c/requests-2.18.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (88 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 88 kB 4.1 MB/s
Collecting graphviz<0.9.0,>=0.8.1
Downloading https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/53/39/4ab213673844e0c004bed8a0781a0721a3f6bb23eb8854ee75c236428892/graphviz-0.8.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (16 kB)
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement numpy<1.17.0,>=1.8.2 (from mxnet==1.6.0) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for numpy<1.17.0,>=1.8.2 (from mxnet==1.6.0)
5th try:
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in c:\users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from requests<2.19.0,>=2.18.4->mxnet==1.6.0) (2019.11.28)
Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in c:\users\a8679\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from requests<2.19.0,>=2.18.4->mxnet==1.6.0) (3.0.4)
ERROR: botocore 1.17.20 has requirement docutils<0.16,>=0.10, but you’ll have docutils 0.16 which is incompatible.
ERROR: awscli 1.18.97 has requirement docutils<0.16,>=0.10, but you’ll have docutils 0.16 which is incompatible.
Installing collected packages: idna, urllib3, requests, numpy, graphviz, mxnet
Attempting uninstall: idna
Found existing installation: idna 2.8
Uninstalling idna-2.8:
Successfully uninstalled idna-2.8
Attempting uninstall: urllib3
Found existing installation: urllib3 1.25.8
Uninstalling urllib3-1.25.8:
Successfully uninstalled urllib3-1.25.8
Attempting uninstall: requests
Found existing installation: requests 2.22.0
Uninstalling requests-2.22.0:
Successfully uninstalled requests-2.22.0
Attempting uninstall: numpy
Found existing installation: numpy 1.18.1
Uninstalling numpy-1.18.1:
Successfully uninstalled numpy-1.18.1
Successfully installed graphviz-0.8.4 idna-2.6 mxnet-1.6.0 numpy-1.16.6 requests-2.18.4 urllib3-1.22
# install assignment dependencies.
# since the virtual env is activated,
# this pip is associated with the
# python binary of the environment
pip install -r requirements.txt
I have geforce mx250 graphics. I dont think i have cuda support. What platform should i run the code.