Theano for Debian Science

[Daniel Stender <debian@danielstender.com>]

Hi,

I've packaged Theano [1] now for Debian Science [2, 3].

Description: CPU/GPU math expression compiler for Python
 Theano is a Python library that allows one to define and evaluate mathematical
 expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. It provides a
 high-level Numpy like expression language for functional description of
 calculation, rearranges expressions for speed and stability, and generates
 native machine instructions for fast calculation. Optionally, highly
 accelerated computations could be carried out on graphics cards processors.

It's going into experimental first of all, there were some hangs here on the GPU, which
might aren't reproducible, and it needs some more work.

I'll send more information on how to test drive it etc. when the package is in.

I would suggest to add it to the numerical computation task, where Numpy is.

Thanks,
Daniel Stender

[1] http://www.deeplearning.net/software/theano/

[2] https://bugs.debian.org/576540 (ITP: theano -- Python library to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays)

[3] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/theano.git

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