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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) Overview

What is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit is an open-source, commercial-grade toolkit that empowers user to harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning by providing uncompromised scaling, speed and accuracy with commercial-grade quality and compatibility with the programming languages and algorithms already use.

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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit is an open-source, commercial-grade toolkit that empowers user to harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning by providing uncompromised scaling, speed and accuracy with commercial-grade quality and compatibility with the programming languages and algorithms already use.


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This is best of the best tool in now day to handle day to day things with AI, one of the special features detecting people by the face and the outp...
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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

An amazing tool for the machine learning. With help from Github tutorials we can easily setup the Cognitive tool on any of the windows or Linux machines. Being a .NET developer working with Cognitive toolkit is very easy as it supports c#. When we started using this toolkit, we have deployed this on Ubuntu machine and did the POC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

No major flaws found with this toolkit may be because we did not find any other alternative. But one thing we noticed was the core api's are created in c++, few times it would be difficult to debug the application in Python.

Microsoft is working hard to create wrappers but a time consuming process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK):

Using Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit you can bring the power of Machine Learning to your application very easily. With support of Python and C# you can easily integrate the API's and mine the data you need. A powerful tool that can be easily configured and installed on any of the Windows or Linux machines. The toolkit is used in all kinds of deep learning, including image, video, speech, and text data. Several blogs and video tutorials are now available for the developers to easily understand the start using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Cognitive Toolkit for the Data Science application for a Health Care product. WIth millions of records of data coming every day, our application will help management to deep dive in covered entities and pharmacy relationship and identify new opportunities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I feel CNTK is one of the most widely known machine learning frameworks in the market it features great compatibility and effective use of computational resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Its complicated to figure out how to command exactly what i want the machine to learn. I know but machines come up with multiple outcomes. it gets demotivating over time.

The UI/UX can be made better than what is is right now. probably adopt or create something similar to tableu's features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Machine learning framework is a library for the programming languages that provides an ability to construct a machine learning model, train, test, and evaluate the defined model. It can always be updated and made better by figuring out the endless possibilities of learning algorithms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

create algorithms for data analysis of data sets created from research and reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Easily scalable across business. I have used Face API for detection emotion which I truly enjoyed in my workplace. I highly recommend this Toolkit because of its ease of use and the speed for processing data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Some of the subscription keys have not worked in past but I have not had a problem in quite some time now. Missing out on full Microsoft customer support experience because of the community of open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK):

Use Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit for an oriented vision of your clients. If you have experiences with C++ and Python, you should have no problem dealing with algorithms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides one of the greatest platforms in REST API and Documentation. Strongly recommend Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit for SME users who are seeking to drive a stronger customer experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

This is one of the easier to get started tool for machine learning with minimal coding experience. The product also has good interfaces that can be leveraged for someone trying to get started with machine learning and build models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

To be honest, the one thing that can perhaps be improved is the content that is available in the machine learning model gallery - when I was trying this product, there were more images available in the gallery than other models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK):

test it using internally developed models in addition to what comes out of the box Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

getting started with machine learning with a developed framework that is available in the market and then ramp uo using internally developed models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

My favorite part about the MC toolkit is that it helps you understand python image recognition. It is very easy to install and initialize the library and naive person who is used to python can easily do that.The website describes it as a harness and I would agree with that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

The only part that I dislike is that it can be hard to understand at first. I suggest watching a demo before just launching into the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK):

It is worth testing out to see if it is right for your organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps train deep learning algorithms to act similarly to the human brain in terms of learning. In addition, it improved efficiency and reduced delays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I like how simple it was to incorporate this software after being in the midst of changing software. I was not employed when the previous software was being used, however I love the simplicity and versatility of this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Honestly there was nothing that I disliked about this software, but that might have been because I did not have anything to compare this software to. Since I was not employed at this company when the previous software was being used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK):

just go ahead and make that change, you will save more time with this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

With the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit I am conducting research with my peers. It has helped me learn a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

strong, modular and easily scaleable across business requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Was not as easy to gain support among our end clients for this product (potentially due to our target audience). Pricing and support issues initially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used Microsoft Cognitive Tool kit for my research for detect emotion and also i have successfully done by using this Microsoft Cognitive Tool kit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit or CNTK is the best toolkit available for python for image recognition.Also it can be used with many other languages that you use.It gives you power to use the intelligence of very large datasets which helps you get the variety of data.Also it give you commercial-grade quality and support as stated on its website.You can get very good accuracy and that also with less time while training on its gpu which reduces your cpu usage.It also has many other features which you can check it out on the CNTK website.Support document is also good.It has everything stated which can be understood very easily right from installation to creating your own classifier and everything in between.It is a good API and must try once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I have nothing to dislike about Microsoft's CNTK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK):

I recommend using CNTK if you want to use the pretrained and precoded Machine learning and deep learning classifiers for image recognition or any other use.Its algorithms are having very much good accuracy with great scalability power and performance.You should try using it for integrating ML algorithms to your product.I recommend it to very much to use it for developing ML and DL classifiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have been using Microsoft CNTK since 2 years and have created various classifier models according to my usage by using either their dataset or my own.I have also used their pretrained classifiers when the product required general usage like character recognition or so.It is very easy to use and while using it with python its just very easy to develop such classifiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Microsoft cognitive toolkit or CNTK is basically API which is available for python and other platforms.It is very easy to install and initialize the library and naive person who is used to python can easily do that.It has many great features like you can use the pretrained model for cancer classification using logistic regression.You just have to pass the test data to the model and you will get the results.Also you can change the weights for the algorithm if you wish to do so.

Now regarding training your own model.Suppose if you wish to train your custom logistic regression classifier than you can use your own data set.Create your own test data using cross_validation function of the api and train the data.It is so simple and it can be very useful for training custom models.

Summing up CNTK is the library that any ML engineer can dream of because it has so many pretrained models like MNIST dataset which reduces the efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I have nothing to dislike about CNTK because it is providing so much functionality and also it is opensource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK):

I would recommend using CNTK to you if you are a Machine learning or deep learning engineer and have to develop basic models everytime by yourself.In such scenarios the CNTK can serve the purpose and help you design the models or use the pretrained models according to your requirement and thus reducing the workload.All you have to do is pip install the library for python and buckle up to use the models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use CNTK or Microsoft cognitive toolkit for using pretrained models and sometime train models of my own.I have used the MNIST model with Multilayer Perceptron which is already trained on CNTK to create a Optical Character Recognition.I have also tried Logistic regression for MNIST model but the previous one served better.I have also tried image recognition with deep transfer learning which again is the pretrained model of CNTK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I like as primary thing that the product opensource, friendly use and with the integration of new technologies (cognitive analysis even with pictures) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I dislike that this product is available only for Windows (latest versions) and not for Unix distributions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We analyze Customer data and process by Cognitive analytics solution for Business cost analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.