Deep learning and free software

Posted Jul 26, 2018 13:26 UTC (Thu) by t-v (guest, #112111)
In reply to: Deep learning and free software by ernstp
Parent article: Deep learning and free software

But is it blob-free enough to have in Debian?

Given that there is (in progress) ROCm-support in the usual deep learning libraries, it would be a great step towards having a things like DeepSpeech (in one implementation or other) in Debian - something I think would be hugely beneficial to assistant devices etc.

Deep learning and free software

Posted Jul 28, 2018 4:11 UTC (Sat) by bridgman (guest, #50408) [Link] (1 responses)

The hardware is non-free so you would need to add the amdgpu HW microcode images, but other than that the entire stack is open source. The core kernel code is upstream so should flow into the various Debian branches over time (Vega KFD is probably only in experimental at the moment).

Deep learning and free software

Posted Jul 28, 2018 4:25 UTC (Sat) by bridgman (guest, #50408) [Link]

Forgot to mention that TensorFlow support on ROCm is now up to version 1.8. IIRC Lumin's concerns were specifically related to AlphaGo Zero, which I believe trains its networks using TensorFlow:

https://gpuopen.com/rocm-tensorflow-1-8-release/