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 Artifical neural networks, anytime 
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 This is a code repository to efficiently train a deconvolutional neural network with rectified linear units.
 
 This code uses [theano][theano], [pylearn2][pylearn2], [cuda-convnet][ccnet] and is heavily based on Sander Dieleman's [kaggle galaxy repo][galaxy].