# Theanets

import theanets, numpy as np

def sample(n): return np.random.randn(n, 10)

# create an autoencoder model.
ae = theanets.Autoencoder([10, 2, 10])

# train it with a sparsity regularizer.
ae.train(sample(1000), sample(100),
algo='rmsprop', hidden_l1=0.1)

# continue training without the regularizer.
ae.train(sample(1000), sample(100),
algo='nag', momentum=0.9)

# use the trained model.
ae.predict(sample(10))

theanets is a neural network toolkit for Python that uses Theano for the heavy lifting. Thanks to Theano, your models will transparently run on a GPU.

The toolkit makes it easy to create a wide variety of machine learning models, including linear dense and sparse autoencoders (e.g., PCA and ICA), denoising autoencoders, linear and nonlinear regression, regularized regression (e.g., lasso or elastic net), linear and nonlinear classifiers, and recurrent autoencoders and classifiers, including models using LSTM cells or Clockwork RNN layers.

Models can be constructed using different activation functions (e.g., linear, rectified linear, batch normalization, etc.) and different numbers of layers (e.g., deep models). It is also easy to add different regularizers to each of the models at optimization time—in fact, regularization is often what differentiates two otherwise very similar models (e.g., PCA and ICA).

# Downhill

import climate, downhill, theano, numpy as np
import theano.tensor as TT

climate.enable_default_logging()

def rand(*s): return np.random.randn(*s).astype('f')

# Set up a matrix factorization problem to optimize.
A, B, K = 20, 5, 3
u = theano.shared(rand(A, K), name='u')
v = theano.shared(rand(K, B), name='v')
e = TT.sqr(TT.matrix() - TT.dot(u, v))

# Create a noisy low-rank matrix to factor.
z = np.clip(rand(A, K) - 0.1, 0, 10)
y = np.dot(z, rand(K, B)) + rand(A, B)

downhill.minimize(
# loss = |x - uv|_2 + |u|_1 + |v|_2
loss=e.mean() + abs(u).mean() + (v * v).mean(),
print('Basis:', v.get_value())
downhill is a collection of stochastic gradient optimization routines for loss functions defined using Theano.