The machine learning software is now open for further development and use by applications outside of Yahoo’s ecosystem.
Yahoo has opened the gates for open-source developers to take advantage of CaffeOnSpark, deep learning software which powers Flickr’s image capabilities. Based on the Apache Spark open source cluster computing framework, Yahoo says the system bolsters the Spark framework, which already comes with Spark MLib, a package of non-deep learning algorithms for classifying data.
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