Caffe vs. Horovod vs. ML.NET vs. Python Comparison Chart

Caffe is a deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind. It is developed by Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and by community contributors. Yangqing Jia created the project during his PhD at UC Berkeley. Caffe is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. Check out our web image classification demo! Expressive architecture encourages application and innovation. Models and optimization are defined by configuration without hard-coding. Switch between CPU and GPU by setting a single flag to train on a GPU machine then deploy to commodity clusters or mobile devices. Extensible code fosters active development. In Caffe’s first year, it has been forked by over 1,000 developers and had many significant changes contributed back. Thanks to these contributors the framework tracks the state-of-the-art in both code and models. Speed makes Caffe perfect for research experiments and industry deployment. Caffe can process over 60M images per day with a single NVIDIA K40 GPU.

ML.NET is a free, open source, and cross-platform machine learning framework designed for .NET developers to build custom machine learning models using C# or F# without leaving the .NET ecosystem. It supports various machine learning tasks, including classification, regression, clustering, anomaly detection, and recommendation systems. ML.NET integrates with other popular ML frameworks like TensorFlow and ONNX, enabling additional scenarios such as image classification and object detection. It offers tools like Model Builder and the ML.NET CLI, which utilize Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) to simplify the process of building, training, and deploying high-quality models. These tools automatically explore different algorithms and settings to find the best-performing model for a given scenario.