Re: Neural Networks in octave

[Carlos Medrano]

Thank you

I will try Octave-FANN

Carlos

On Saturday 10 March 2007 11:25, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Carlos Medrano skrev:
> > http://hauberg.org/wiki/doku.php?id=octave-fann/
>
> I'm the author of this so you can't trust anything I say about this
> package ;-)
>
> The FANN bindings work quite well, but FANN has some problems that also
> affect the bindings:
>   *) There is currently no way to get access to the individual weights
> in the network. Sometimes you care about this, sometimes you don't.
>   *) FANN only supports Feedforward Networks which is good enough for
> some uses, but sometimes you just need more powerful algorithms.
>
> Other than that Octave-FANN is quite nice. It's fast, it's easy, and you
> can do the training in Octave and then later run the network from C
> which can be quite handy.
>
> > but I would like to know the opinion of some experienced users before
> > choosing octave or matlab (and his neural network toolbox).
>
> I believe there's also some NN code in octave-forge but I don't know how
> well it works. I guess you could also try out "netlab" (just google it)
> which is
> matlab toolbox for pattern recognition written by Bishop. I haven't
> tried it but I assume that it works in octave.
>
> As to if you should use octave or matlab my advise is to use octave
> (you're asking at an octave list so this is the expected answer). The
> reason is that in the longer run you will need the power that using free
> software provides. Matlab might be more handy in the short run, but you
> will hit the "propriatory software" wall sooner or later.
>
> Søren