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Introducing CURRENNT: The Munich Open-Source CUDA RecurREnt Neural Network Toolkit

Felix Weninger, Johannes Bergmann, Bjorn Schuller
Machine Learning & Signal Processing, Technische Universitat Munchen, 80290 Munich, Germany
Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol.16, 547-551, 2015

@article{weninger2015introducing,

   title={Introducing CURRENNT: The Munich Open-Source CUDA RecurREnt Neural Network Toolkit},

   author={Weninger, Felix},

   journal={Journal of Machine Learning Research},

   volume={16},

   pages={547–551},

   year={2015}

}

In this article, we introduce CURRENNT, an open-source parallel implementation of deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs) supporting graphics processing units (GPUs) through NVIDIA’s Computed Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). CURRENNT supports uni- and bidirectional RNNs with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) memory cells which overcome the vanishing gradient problem. To our knowledge, CURRENNT is the first publicly available parallel implementation of deep LSTM-RNNs. Benchmarks are given on a noisy speech recognition task from the 2013 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, where LSTM-RNNs have been shown to deliver best performance. In the result, double digit speedups in bidirectional LSTM training are achieved with respect to a reference single-threaded CPU implementation. CURRENNT is available under the GNU General Public License.
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