Fabric for Deep Learning (FfDL) vs. Java vs. TFLearn vs. cloverage Comparison Chart

Deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe, Torch, Theano, and MXNet have contributed to the popularity of deep learning by reducing the effort and skills needed to design, train, and use deep learning models. Fabric for Deep Learning (FfDL, pronounced “fiddle”) provides a consistent way to run these deep-learning frameworks as a service on Kubernetes. The FfDL platform uses a microservices architecture to reduce coupling between components, keep each component simple and as stateless as possible, isolate component failures, and allow each component to be developed, tested, deployed, scaled, and upgraded independently. Leveraging the power of Kubernetes, FfDL provides a scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant deep-learning framework. The platform uses a distribution and orchestration layer that facilitates learning from a large amount of data in a reasonable amount of time across compute nodes.

TFlearn is a modular and transparent deep learning library built on top of Tensorflow. It was designed to provide a higher-level API to TensorFlow in order to facilitate and speed up experimentations while remaining fully transparent and compatible with it. Easy-to-use and understand high-level API for implementing deep neural networks, with tutorial and examples. Fast prototyping through highly modular built-in neural network layers, regularizers, optimizers, metrics. Full transparency over Tensorflow. All functions are built over tensors and can be used independently of TFLearn. Powerful helper functions to train any TensorFlow graph, with support of multiple inputs, outputs, and optimizers. Easy and beautiful graph visualization, with details about weights, gradients, activations and more. The high-level API currently supports most of the recent deep learning models, such as Convolutions, LSTM, BiRNN, BatchNorm, PReLU, Residual networks, Generative networks.