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a. INTEL (R) MATH KERNEL LIBRARY (INTEL (R) MKL)
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b. BOOST C++ LIBRARIES
Copyright Beman Dawes, David Abrahams, 1998-2005.
Copyright Rene Rivera 2004-2007.
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c. Open MPI
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d. Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV)
(c) Copyright 2016, Itseez.
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e. zlib
Copyright © 1995-2013 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
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f. libzip
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner
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g. Kaldi
Individual Contributors (in alphabetical order)
Mohit Agarwal
Gilles Boulianne
Lukas Burget
Cisco Corporation
Ondrej Glembek
Arnab Ghoshal
Go Vivace Inc.
Mirko Hannemann
Navdeep Jaitly
Johns Hopkins University
Yajie Miao
Microsoft Corporation
Petr Motlicek
Vassil Panayotov
Ariya Rastrow
Saarland University
Petr Schwarz
Georg Stemmer
Jan Silovsky
Phonexia s.r.o.
Yanmin Qian
Lucas Ondel
Karel Vesely
Haihua Xu
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h. OpenBLAS
Copyright (c) 2011-2014, The OpenBLAS Project
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i. OpenFst
Copyright 2005-2010 Google, Inc.
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j. Google Protocol Buffers
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k. Google gemmlowp Library
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l. Google Tensorflow
Copyright 2017 The TensorFlow Authors. All rights reserved.
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m. ATIS DATASETS
CNTK distribution contains a subset of ATIS Datasets:
Hemphill, Charles, et al. ATIS0 Complete LDC93S4A. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.
Garofolo, John, et al. ATIS2 LDC93S5. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.
Dahl, Deborah, et al. ATIS3 Test Data LDC95S26. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1995.
Dahl, Deborah, et al. ATIS3 Training Data LDC94S19. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1994.
n. TIMIT ACOUSTIC-PHONETIC CONTINUOUS SPEECH CORPUS
CNTK distribution contains a subset of TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus:
Garofolo, John, et al. TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus LDC93S1. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.
o. THE PENN TREEBANK PROJECT
CNTK distribution contains a subset of the data of The Penn Treebank Project:
Marcus, Mitchell, Beatrice Santorini, and Mary Ann Marcinkiewicz. Treebank-2 LDC95T7. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1995.
p. THE CMU AUDIO DATABASES
CNTK distribution contains a subset of the CMU Audio Databases
Copyright (c) 1991-2005 Carnegie Mellon University. All rights reserved.
q. THE MNIST DATABASE OF HANDWRITTEN DIGITS
CNTK distribution contains a subset of the MNIST Database of Handwritten Digits
r. Alpaca Selective Search
Copyright (c) 2015-2016 AlpacaDB
Copyright (c) 2016 Oussama ENNAFII
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MIT License
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
s. CNTK distribution contains a subset of NVIDIA cuDNN
NVIDIA Windows: cudnn64.dll and Linux: libcudnn.so libraries may be used only in conjunction with CNTK.
Use of the NVIDIA Windows: cudnn64.dll and/or Linux: libcudnn.so libraries independent of CNTK is strictly prohibited.
t. CNTK distribution contains a subset of NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit in binary format.
The subset of NVIDIA CUDA includes the following libraries:
Windows: cublas64.dll, cudart64.dll, curand64.dll, cusparse64.dll
Linux: libcudart.so, libcublas.so, libcurand.so, libcusparse.so
This subset of NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit may be used only in binary format in conjunction with CNTK.
The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit files may not be modified, and use of the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit files independent of CNTK is strictly prohibited.
u. CNTK distribution contains a subset of NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) in binary format.
The subset of NVIDIA NCCL includes Linux: libnccl.so
Use of this library independent of CNTK is strictly prohibited.