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Does NCS provide a low-level api?

idata
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It seems there are only some High-Level nerual graph Api like

 

     

  • load a whole graph
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  • infer this graph
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  • get the final layer's result
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Is there some library providing tensor api like:

 

     

  • conv(input, output, dim,…)
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  • softmax(….)

     

    so that I can make my network from scratch.
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Or some more raw-calculation-api with NCS-accelerate like:

 

     

  • max(a, b, c…)
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  • matrix_add(a, b)
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So that I can create my own custom layer or op.

 

Thank you.

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idata
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@chenxiaoyu3 Thanks for your interest. At the moment, the NCSDK(2.05) doesn't have a low level API for creating custom layers or ops or any tensorlike apis.

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idata
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@Tome_at_Intel Do you guys have some plan for this? We must adjust these common Network to make it adaptive to particular domain, I think this is required in many practical scene.

 

We found NCStick is quite useful for many of our customers, whose models are all customized.

 

Is There a rough roadmap for this?
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idata
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@chenxiaoyu3 We understand your situation, however there isn't a road map that I can share regarding custom layers.

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